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Gaining insight from experience: what are service users saying about employment?
- Authors:
- BERTRAM Mark, LINNETT Peter
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 7(4), November 2003, pp.3-6.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Describes the findings of a consultation conference which, through user-facilitated focus groups, was able to get mental health service users views about existing employment services. Discusses current services; suggestions for new services; and the role service users and user-led organisations can play in developing and running new services.
When it pays to be bipolar – the world of service user research
- Author:
- MAYES Debbie
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 14(1), February 2010, pp.20-23.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
There is a growing trend in research for service users to be employed and openly identified as a service user as well as a researcher. The author of this paper is a researcher with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. She is currently working at the Spectrum Centre for Mental Health Research at Lancaster University, and has previously worked for the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health and the Institute of Psychiatry, both in London. This paper describes the history of service user involvement in research, and also what it is like to be a service user researcher. She describes the benefits for service users and researchers, and concludes that all mental health research departments should employ service users to ensure that the service user voice is central to all research that is carried out.
Partners in care: service user employment in the NHS: a user’s perspective
- Author:
- HARDING Emma
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 29(7), July 2005, pp.268-269.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
The user employment programme at Southwest London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust is implemented by a small team of employment specialists working to support people with personal experience of mental ill health to attain and retain jobs within the NHS. There is a triad of support available in terms of enabling people to get jobs by providing weekly details of vacancies and assistance with application forms and interview skills. NHS user employment is particularly important as it enables people to consolidate and make use of what is to the rest of society misconstrued as a dirty secret or even a menace. For the individual themselves, the experience of distress is often a series of life-changing events; being able to make use of the revelations these bring is a natural panacea.
Implementing a user employment programme in a mental health trust: lessons learned
- Authors:
- RINALDI Miles, et al
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 8(4), November 2004, pp.9-14.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The User Employment Programme at South West London & St George's Mental Health Trust pioneered user employment in mental health trusts. Reviews the lessons learned 8 years on, highlighting some pitfalls to avoid and useful pointers for others embarking on this course. Key to its success has been the ongoing support and involvement of senior management, listening to and learning from users, and an incremental approach to breaking down the barriers between 'them' and 'us'.
Consumer-run businesses in the USA
- Authors:
- SCHWARZ Gerold, STASTNY Peter, KRAVITZ Miriam
- Journal article citation:
- ReHab NetWork, 36, Winter 1995, pp.5-9.
- Publisher:
- National Vocational Rehabilitation Association
Outlines a new approach to vocational rehabilitation for people with psychiatric disabilities.
We can work it out: ten mental health service users talk about their experience of moving from benefits to work
- Editors:
- ANAYA Staphanie, et al
- Publisher:
- King's College London. Institute for Applied Health and Social Policy
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 48p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report relates the experiences of ten mental health users who talk about their experiences of moving from benefits to work. They address some of the concerns that users may have about benefits, disclosure, stigma, medication and coping with bad days.
Breaking down the barriers in mental health
- Author:
- ROBERTS Nicola
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 9(1), September 2002, pp.12-16.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Reports on the Lambeth Mental Health Awareness Project which offers training and support to people and agencies that have contact with mental health service users. It aims to challenge stigma and discrimination and to break down the barriers to services, employment and training people with mental health problems.
A sense of purpose
- Author:
- CLARK Sherry
- Journal article citation:
- Volunteering, 82, October 2002, pp.8-12.
- Publisher:
- Volunteering England
Discusses the restorative role volunteering can play for people with mental health problems.
Out of the benefit trap
- Author:
- LLORENTE Carmen
- Journal article citation:
- Voluntary Voice, 128, October 1998, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- London Voluntary Service Council
Describes a pioneering initiative in west London that uses 'social firms' to help people with mental health problems move towards conventional employment.
Doing disability research
- Editors:
- BARNES Colin, MERCER Geof
- Publisher:
- Disability Press
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 236p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
Looks at key issues and problems in translating disability theory into research. Questions addressed include: breaking the researcher-researched hierarchy; involving disabled people; ownership and control; disability research funding; measuring disability barriers; research and the survivors' movement; narrative approaches; researching sexuality, multiple oppression, abuse and violence; and researching disability in non-European contexts.