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Leadership for empowerment and equality: a proposed model for mental health user/survivor leadership
- Author:
- O'HAGAN Mary
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Leadership in Public Services, 5(4), December 2009, pp.34-43.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The article, for the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership, which works to improve mental health services by supporting innovative leadership, is written by an author who experienced severe mental health problems and used mental health services as a young woman, went on to establish in the 1990’s a user/survivor movement protesting at the system’s failures to help (or actually harming) users and focussing on empowerment and equality, was a mental health commissioner and is now an international consultant in mental health problems and services. Leadership, among people with lived experiences of mental health problems (survivors) could be better developed to help themselves and others currently experiencing mental health problems, at service and systemic levels. Critiques of conventional models of leadership, in terms of leaders being inherently good, denial of darker forces of greed and power at play, assumption of heroic responsibility all problems, lack of ability to change or critique themselves, and considering transactional and transformational approaches, may provide a framework upon which survivors can build a leadership model. The new roles, practices and competencies of user/survivor leaders will be dependent on philosophical, psychological, political and practical (physical) shifts in current mental health service systems for their acceptance.
Doing seniority differently: a study of high fliers living with ill health, injury or disability: interim report
- Author:
- RADAR
- Publisher:
- RADAR
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 56p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report is based on 1,461 responses to an online questionnaire distributed between May and August 2009. The research set out to investigate the experiences of people living with ill-health, injury or disability working in senior jobs. The findings were that many senior executives have significant impairments, from paraplegia and renal failure to bipolar disorder, and over half had had their impairment for over 20 years. Disabled high fliers tend to be male, middle-aged and to work in the private sector. The factors that helped them progress were: having a mentor committed to their career; and having senior staff support throughout their career. However, there are also important inequalities among disabled people in relation to age, gender, ethnicity and impairment type. Although career aspirations were equal between disabled and non-disabled people, disabled people were a third as likely as nondisabled to earn £80,000 or above, and less than half as likely to be a board level Director. People with mental health conditions were significantly less likely than other disabled people achieve these levels of success. People with mental health conditions were particularly likely to choose to conceal their impairment, often because they feared the impact being open might have on their career prospects.
Leadership for change in mental health services
- Author:
- ONYETT Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 7(4), December 2002, pp.20-23.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
This article looks at how leadership in mental health services might begin to address the challenge of organisational change and describes the car programme approach aimed at delivering this change at a local level.
Leaders as developers of people, systems and process: a NIHME perspective
- Author:
- FITTON James
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 7(4), December 2002, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Describes the work and strategy of the National Institute for Mental Health in England launched in July 2002.
Developing leaders in mental health services
- Author:
- POND Christina
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 7(4), December 2002, pp.3-9.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
This paper describes the current focus on leadership development in the NHS within the programme of service modernisation and public sector reform, in particular the development of leadership in mental health services. Reference is made to management theory and how some of the ideas might apply in practice.
Leadership development: reflections an learning on a two year programme
- Authors:
- DAVIDSON Deborah, NEWBIGGING Karen, PECK Edward
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 7(4), December 2002, pp.10-14.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
The National Service Framework for Mental Health (NSF) has clearly identified lead implementation officers as responsible for the execution of this policy. The North West Mental Health Development Programme was pilot project used to implement the framework. This article provides an overview of the programme, its educational design and reflects on the process of its development.
Broadening the definition of leadership: active citizens as leaders of change
- Author:
- Connor Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 7(4), December 2002, pp.15-17.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
The term leadership has been often applicable within the work domain, where development programmes are aimed at managers and lead organisations. However the government has recognised that changes in public services require the collaboration of many stakeholders working together in partnership and has placed at the core of its policies the need to include users and carers.