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The 79-cent campaign: the use of on-line mailing lists for electronic advocacy
- Author:
- MENON Goutham M.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Community Practice, 8(3), 2001, pp.73-81.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philapelphia, USA
This case study shows how one American on-line group went beyond its primary function of being a discussion group, to be a more productive, empowering tool for electronic advocacy. By orchestrating an effective campaign to bring to the forefront issues affecting the lives of those living with severe mental illnesses, the work of this group can be seen as an example in the effective use of the Internet for advocacy and empowerment.
Your friend or mine?
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, September 2001, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Reports on user groups concerns about the independence of the new Patient Advocacy and Liaison schemes.
Access to advocacy
- Author:
- LUDWID Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Diverse Minds Magazine, 10, October 2001, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Looks at the proposed changes for advocacy services and asks whether they will benefit black and ethnic minority mental health service users.
The day the voices stopped: a memoir of madness and hope
- Authors:
- STEELE Ken, BERMAN Claire
- Publisher:
- Basic Books
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 257p.
- Place of publication:
- New York
Steele died at 51, just after completing this highly personal but clear-headed account of his life as a schizophrenic. His parents' denial of his illness, which struck suddenly when he was 14, hampered them and him in seeking help and in understanding the dangers his condition might entail, and thus his experience of his illness was punctuated by several suicide attempts and violent attacks. There were also a few bright spots - the occasional knowledgeable, sympathetic doctor or positive and educational hospital programme, amid the despair and hopelessness that usually surrounded him. During the 32 years that interior voices overwhelmed his thoughts and actions, Steele moved back and forth across the country and in and out of hospitals and worked at odd jobs, including an unfortunate stint of prostitution. His account of the day the voices stopped will surely remain with everyone who reads it, and the whole book should inform and affect other victims of severe mental illness and their families.
Raising our voices: an account of the hearing voices movement
- Author:
- JAMES Adam
- Publisher:
- Handsell
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 178p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Gloucester
This book details the history of the Hearing Voices Network from Julian Jaynes' work on the bicarmal mind to the development of the Network. It includes chapters on: Moses - prophet or schizophrenic; the freedom to hear voices and the beginnings of the hearing voices movement; self help; who or what are the voices; psychotic and proud; cognitive psychology and hearing voices; grooming maverick psychiatrists; advocacy; and the genetics of schizophrenia.
Patients' advocacy: the development of a service at the State Hospital Carstairs Scotland
- Authors:
- ATKINSON Jacqueline M., MacPHERSON Kirstine
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 10(6), December 2001, pp.589-596.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
This article describes the development of an advocacy service and explores the issues involved in advocacy in a maximum secure environment. Using a model of citizen advocacy the service was started in September 1997. Patient involvement throughout the hospital was high with approximately 88% of patients having some contact with the service by January 2000. Most of the issues raised by patients are similar to those in any mental health advocacy project. Entrapment is a particular issue for some patients. Safety and security issues influence every aspect of the service. This ranges from advocates having to do more for patients rather than enable them to do things for themselves (e.g. make telephone calls) to the principle of the patients' wishes being paramount being tempered by security demands.
Turned upside down: services for young people in crisis
- Authors:
- LEON Lucy, SMITH Karen
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 51, March 2001, pp.22-24.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
Describes the results of a new research project which, through listening to the experiences of young people who have survived a mental health crisis, aims to promote the development of community-based crisis services for 16-25-year-olds.
From petitions to professionals
- Author:
- CAMPBELL Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 107, January 2001, p.10.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Outlines a brief history of mental health advocacy in the UK.
Taking instructions
- Author:
- KELLEY Nancy
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 107, January 2001, p.11.
- Publisher:
- MIND
The author defines and defends independent mental health advocacy.
A clear voice, a clear vision: the advocacy reader
- Editors:
- MULLINS Gillian, WOOD Patrick
- Publisher:
- UK Advocacy Network
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 93p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
Advocacy is important to people with a wide range of problems and the experiences of advocacy are reflected in a variety of settings. This report describes some of the most important issues concerned in the establishment and successful running of advocacy projects as well as the principles involved and standards of good practice. Contents include: advocacy and the Mental Health Act; consideration in advocacy provision; advocacy in different situations; running the advocacy project; standing together; employees and volunteers.