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Speaking up, speaking out
- Author:
- PLATZER Hazel
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 117, September 2002, p.16.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Briefly reviews the evidence from two specialist lesbian and gay advocacy projects, which highlight the need for specialist mental health advocacy services.
The role of the Public Guardianship Office in safeguarding vulnerable adults against financial abuse
- Authors:
- BROWN Hilary, BURNS Sophie, WILSON Barry
- Publisher:
- Public Guardianship Office
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 51p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This research project was commissioned by the Public Guardianship Office and took place between 2001 and 2002. Although the research was specifically designed to assist the PGO to better understand and respond to financial abuse in its own context, much of what was revealed has wider implications and applicability.
Advocating advocacy
- Author:
- DOW John
- Journal article citation:
- MCC Building Knowledge for Integrated Care, 10(6), December 2002, pp.28-31.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Looks at the legal and policy context for the development of advocacy services and considers the legal issues which arise when developing standards and codes of practice for advocacy services, in particular capacity, consent and confidentiality.
Research into practice
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.12.02, 2002, p.45.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Research from the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health shows the importance of gaining service users' views on innovative local practices they receive. The Active Outreach Team was set up in a voluntary sector service with a remit to support people in sustaining their own tenancies. Assertive outreach is about engaging people who choose not to become involved with or actively resist mainstream services.
User champions
- Author:
- THORP Samantha
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Guide, 27.11.02, 2002, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Amid the controversy surrounding the draft Mental Health Bill, the questions of advocacy and the protection of users rights has assumed prominence. Currently there are no national requirements for an advocacy presence in every locality. Therefore service users are subject to a postcode lottery in terms of their ability to access an advocate.
The national protection and advocacy system:what social workers need to know
- Authors:
- MEINART Roland, DE LOYOLA Shawn
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 1(1), 2002, pp.15-26.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Describes the American national system of protection and advocacy services which provides advocacy and legal representation to protect the civil rights of all persons with disabilities, with a particular emphasis on persons with developmental disabilities and persons with mental illness. The article describes this system of resources, its method of operation, and shows its compatibility with the purpose and mission of social work.
Best practice in mental health: advocacy for African, Caribbean and South Asian communities
- Authors:
- RAI-ATKINS Asha, et al
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 51p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This monograph explores the reasons or the lack of advocacy development within the Black voluntary sector and explains why advocacy is less accessible to black service users. It combines examples of best practice derived mainly from the Black mental health and advocacy projects.
Bringing difference into deliberation? Disabled people survivors and local governance
- Author:
- BARNES Marian
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 30(3), July 2002, pp.319-331.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article discusses the engagement of disabled people and mental health service users/survivors in the process of participatory democracy. The article considers how notions of "legitimate participants" are constructed within official discourse, and how those can be challenged by autonomous groups of disabled people. It also explores assumptions about appropriate forms of deliberation within participation forums and how an appeal to rational debate can exclude the emotional content of the experience of living with mental health problems from deliberation about mental health policy.
Mental health services users and disability: implications for future strategies
- Authors:
- BERESFORD Peter, HARRISON Chris, WILSON Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 30(3), July 2002, pp.387-396.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article investigates what appears to be an ambiguity in the approach of disability policy and disability politics to mental health service users. Mental health policy, which has always had powers to restrict their rights, is now increasingly associating mental health service users/survivors with "dangerousness" and focusing on them as a threat to "public safety". Mental health service users"/survivors" organisations, which have so far tended to focus their activities on mental health policy and partnership approaches to making change,are now beginning to look to disability policy and politics to develop their thinking and activities for the future, while retaining their own distinct and independent identity. This has important implications for disability studies, policy and politics.
Breaking the circles of fear: a review of the relationship between mental health services and African and Caribbean communities
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 102p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The key findings of this report include the following. Mainstream services are experienced as inhumane unhelpful and inappropriate by black people. The care pathways are problematic. Primary care is limited and community based crisis care is lacking. There is a divergence in professional and lay discourse about mental illness. Service user, family and carer involvement is lacking. Black led initiatives are not valued. The feeling of stigma is wide spread.