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Mental health still matters
- Editors:
- REYNOLDS Jill, et al, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 386p.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
- Edition:
- 2nd
This collection of 53 readings forms part of the Open University courses Challenging ideas in mental health (K272) and Diverse perspectives on mental health (K225) and reflects the wide diversity of views about how best to understand and explain mental health and distress. The four parts cover debates and theories, inequality and policy, service users' experience and perspectives and challenges for practice.
On defeating exile
- Authors:
- SHACKMAN Jane, REYNOLDS Jill
- Journal article citation:
- Open Mind, 73, February 1995, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Discusses the support that can be offered to refugees who are in mental distress.
Opening minds: user involvement in the production of learning materials on mental health and distress
- Authors:
- REYNOLDS Jill, READ Jim
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Education (The International Journal), 18(4), November 1999, pp.417-431.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article looks at the process of involving users in the production of the Open University course on mental health. There is increasing recognition of the need for partnership with service users in training provision as well as in professional practice, but there has been less attention to how this works out, and to the dilemmas faced by participants in such processes. 'Mental health and illness' are highly contested concepts. Professional debates on appropriate frameworks for intervention mean that the promotion of user views in training courses may be derided as 'antipsychiatry'. This is a particular risk for social work education. There are then dilemmas for educators on providing academic credibility and balance while being sensitive to user perspectives and critiques. However, academic criteria about what counts as knowledge are subject to change, and user views may have an influence here.