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Women with learning disabilities and menstruation
- Author:
- RODGERS Jackie
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 9(4), October 2004, pp.33-35.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Discusses the importance of menstruation, the unhappy experiences with it of many women with learning disabilities, arguments that it should be suppressed, menstruation and womanhood, and what can be done and is being done to improve things. Concludes more profound change can only occur through the empowerment of women with learning disabilities through self-advocacy, disability rights and women's movements.
Exploring the concept of recovery from the perspective of people with mental health problems
- Author:
- WARREN Kate
- Publisher:
- University of East Anglia. School of Social Work and Psychosocial Studies
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 56p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
Recovery is about seeing people and people seeing themselves as capable of recovery rather than as passive recipients of professional treatments. It is about working out strategies and taking control of our own lives. Within the recovery approach,developing in states in America, New Zealand and elsewhere, individuals are encouraged to learn more about their experience, and find ways to deal with their mental health experiences. People are actively supported to acquire the skills, knowledge and strength to reduce the prevalence or harmful experiences in safe, simple and effective ways. The focus is on self determination and cascading strategies. This means that those who participate in the groups will have a framework for recovery but will determine for themselves how they take this forward. This is a quite different way of doing things from the pervading methodology. It is about people taking control of their own lives, being responsible for their actions and self empowerment.
Putting participative research into practice
- Author:
- HUMPHRIES Beth
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 7(3), March 2001, pp.23-25.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Draws on two models to describe participative research in action and concludes that the ultimate test of the effectiveness of such research is whether service users can set their own agenda and mobilise to carry it out.
Looking to the future: key issues for contemporary mental health services
- Editor:
- BASSET Thurstine
- Publisher:
- Pavilion Publishing,|Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 229p.bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Focusing on central issues and debates, key research findings and current challenges, the book is illustrated with mental health service users' poems and photographs, and presents a broad overview of the mental heath care system which is looking to the future. The book is intended as a reader for the Certificate in Community Mental Health Care. Contents include: perspectives on mental health and illness; issues around empowerment; carpers' testimonies; legal contexts across the UK; individual care planning; risk and safety; anti-racist practice in mental health assessment; community mental health services; working with people with long term needs; strategies for living with mental distress; understanding relationships; the soul of psychiatry.