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Safety in Numbers
- Author:
- GEORGE Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, May 2004, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Looks at the mixed response to a new national organisation, the Association of Mental Health Advocates (AMHA) that was launched recently.
A friend to alleged lunatics
- Author:
- BRANDON David
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, October 2007, pp.37-39.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
John Thomas Perceval founded the first ever user-led advocacy service, the Alleged Lunatics' Friends Society in 1845. The author discusses the work of John Perceval and how his beliefs about mental distress and recovery resonate with those of the service user/survivor and advocacy movements today.
Breaking the vicious cycle
- Author:
- SARTORIUS Norman
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(3), November 2000, pp.80-82.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Discusses how mental health workers can tackle stigma and discrimination attached to metal illness.
Research on guardianship for mentally ill people: volume 2; findings and issues from a research project, and review of the previous research
- Author:
- COX Brian
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 134p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Raised voices
- Author:
- HIGGINS Ray
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 22.7.93, 1993, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Describes the Richmond Fellowship Advocacy Project based in a long-stay psychiatric hospital in Wakefield, and the reactions of front-line staff to user involvement and empowerment.