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Recovery and resilience: lessons in healing from black women's stories
- Author:
- MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The briefing draws on the report Recovery and Resilience: African, African-Caribbean and South Asian women’s narratives of recovering from mental distress. The report explored what helped women in their healing process based on positive stories of recovery of 27 women from these communities. This briefing focuses on how black women understand mental distress, what causes them distress, the meanings they attach to recovery, the activities they find supportive, and how professionals and services could provide help and support. It includes quotations from the women themselves