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Eve fights back: the successes of MIND's stress on women campaign
- Authors:
- DARTON Katherine, GORMAN Janet, SAYCE Liz
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 51p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Study looking at how women are treated when using mental health services, and at how services need to address women's needs more fully.
Under pressure
- Author:
- SAYCE Liz
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 2.4.92, 1992, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Discusses the implications of the way National Health Service Trusts relate to community health services and particularly the mental health services.
Outsiders coming in?: achieving social inclusion for people with mental health problems
- Authors:
- SAYCE Liz, MORRIS David
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A core aim of government policy is to reduce social exclusion. This requires community engagement and success is dependent on multiagency partnerships. Given the mental health dimension in social exclusion, achievements will be limited without significant involvement from mental health agencies.
High time for justice
- Author:
- SAYCE Liz
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 3.3.99, 1999, pp.64-66.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Not only are people who have been diagnosed with a mental illness vulnerable to assault, they tend not to be believed when it occurs. Discusses how the Home Office's new recommendations should help empower mental health service users.
Collective user participation in mental health: implications for social work education and training
- Authors:
- RAMON Shulamit, SAYCE Liz
- Journal article citation:
- Issues in Social Work Education, 13(2), Autumn 1993, pp.53-70.
- Publisher:
- Association of Teachers in Social Work Education
Examines the development of the mental health service user movement in the UK and the need for social work training to offer skills and knowledge in collective user involvement.
Waiting for community care: implications of Government policy for 1991
- Author:
- SAYCE Liz
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 42p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
MIND's response to the White Paper and its affect on mentally ill people. Suggests a policy framework which directs developments towards specific goals, including taking into account consumer views, local mental health services in each area with consistent national standards, and the pursuit of change through a major resource transfer from institutional to community based services.
Beyond good intentions: making anti-discrimination strategies work
- Author:
- SAYCE Liz
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(5), August 2003, pp.625-642.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article seeks to explore some key questions about effectiveness in anti-discrimination work: what do we know of what works to reduce discrimination faced by disabled people? It takes, as its key focus, current work to reduce discrimination experienced by people who use mental health services, in Britain and internationally. It also looks at initiatives in wider disability communities. It argues on the basis of available evidence that initiatives are most likely to succeed if they effectively challenge the power that underpins discrimination, aim to transform beliefs amongst those with the power to discriminate, intervene carefully in the different components of 'discrimination', drawing on evidence of effectiveness and work within a comprehensive framework for ongoing anti-discrimination work. This means targeting anti-discrimination work at different levels and different sectors, working with a range of different organisations and groups, rather than dispersing resources through ad hoc, one-off mini-initiatives. There is no single solution to discrimination, but different elements of potential 'solutions' exist. What is needed is to bring different strands of work together. In particular, it would be helpful to forge a stronger synthesis between, on the one hand, securing legislative improvement and enforcement, and on the other, promoting the universal benefits of a more inclusive society. Each complements the other.
Stigma, discrimination and social exclusion: What's in a word?
- Author:
- SAYCE Liz
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 7(4), August 1998, pp.331-343.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
There is mounting evidence that British service users face pervasive discrimination in areas of life ranging from work to parenting, insurance to driving licenses. One of the key concepts used to investigate the problems that users of mental health services face in their relationships to other people, and to society at large, is 'stigma'. This concept is used to frame questions of public attitudes about mental illness, users' self-perceptions and the unfavourable treatment they receive. It is often stated or implied that if we can breakdown 'stigma' we can transform users' position in society, their opportunities and well-being. Examines the limitations of both the concept of 'stigma' and the way it is applied, and reviews the growing literature on discrimination, which is seen as a more promising model on which to base social change.