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When equality is not really equal: affirmative action and consumer participation
- Authors:
- HAPPELL Brenda, ROPER Cath
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Public Mental Health, 5(3), September 2006, pp.6-11.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Consumer participation in mental health service planning and delivery is now authorised through Australian government policy. While strategies have been implemented to foster opportunities for participation, they have rarely been evaluated for their effectiveness. Furthermore, the inadequacy of these strategies to support policy implementation has been criticised in the literature and identified as a major obstacle to genuine and effective consumer participation in mental health care. This paper argues that there is an urgent need for affirmative action in order to overcome the current and historical discrimination that prevents consumers from active participation.
Pathways to policy: a toolkit for grassroots involvement in mental health policy
- Editors:
- BUREAU Jonathan, SHEARS Jane, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Hamlet Trust
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 91p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This toolkit provides a framework for NGOs and user groups to establish a mental health policy “forum” to enable people experiencing mental distress to have a genuine voice in policy-making. Published by the Hamlet Trust and the Mental Health Foundation, the resource explains how to work in partnership with stakeholders to prioritise local mental health issues, develop action plans and raise awareness among the wider population. The Pathways to Policy programme, originally developed in 2002 by the UK organisation Hamlet Trust, has seen the establishment of forums in a wide range of countries and contexts. Using socially inclusive approaches to policy-making, this toolkit is draws on the experiences of those involved in the programme. The toolkit includes: Accessible, interactive study of concepts of policymaking; Workshop outlines, including exercises, to improve skills and confidence among service users and other stakeholders; Advice and ideas on working with the media; Case studies and learning from successful mental health policy forums around the world.
User involvement: a contemporary overview
- Author:
- WILLIAMSON Toby
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 9(1), March 2004, pp.6-12.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Provides an overview of what user involvement means in relation to the current mental health system in Britain, and people's experience of having contact with that system. Looks at the change in policy and the emphasis on user involvement, and asks how much user involvement can achieve and for who.
Mental health policy and Northern Ireland
- Author:
- PRIOR Pauline
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 27(4), December 1993, pp.323-334.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Mental health policy in Northern Ireland has moved through a number of phases during the past seventy years. This article examines some of the developments during each of these phases in the context of political factors which had an effect on policy formation and implementation.
Mental health service users' aspirations for recovery: examining the gaps between what policy promises and practice delivers
- Authors:
- DAVIES Kate, GRAY Mel
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 45(S1), 2015, pp.i45-i61.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This paper draws on findings from an Australian study of mental health service users' perspectives on service user participation to examine the challenges for translating recovery policy into practice. It considers the ways in which national mental health policies and developing welfare reforms reflect and/or contradict the highly personal mode of recovery important to service users; though they seemingly signal potential wins for service user empowerment, they are accompanied by losses for those who do not fit neatly into clinical categorisations. The service users (n = 11) and service providers (n = 6) interviewed for this exploratory qualitative study revealed that recovery was a lifelong process of fluctuating capacity and described a system poorly equipped and often unwilling to move beyond tokenistic modes of participation. The analysis of service user perspectives against the backdrop of policy reform reveals the ongoing tensions between personal and clinical definitions of recovery. (Publisher abstract)
Scotland the brave
- Author:
- ROBERTS Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, 9(6), July 2009, pp.16-18.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This article looks at recent research that shows that Scotland pioneered the user movement. The Scottish Union of Mental Patients (SUMP) was founded sometime between 1969 and 1971, before the foundation of the Mental Patients Union in London in 1973. The article details the genesis of its first action, the "Petition for redress of grievances put forward by patients in Hartwood Hospital, Shotts Lanarkshire" and subsequent developments including the production of the training video "speaking from experience" in 1985. The article concludes with details of Scottish and English groups that are currently working on the history of the survivor movement.
It'll be all rights
- Author:
- BRODY Simeon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.06.06, 2006, p.46.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author asks how far councils have gone in meeting the forthcoming duty to promote equality of opportunity for disabled people. The article focuses on the progress made in producing and disability equality scheme, and the extent of involving disabled people in drafting these schemes.
Mental Divisions
- Author:
- MAPP Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.10.95, 1995, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how people with mental health problems are taking advice to improve their image.
Card carriers
- Author:
- STRONG Susannah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.7.95, 1995, p.7.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Increasing numbers of people with mental health problems are experiencing adverse side effects from prescribed drugs. Reports on the practice implications of a new yellow card scheme to give users a voice.
Innovation without change: consumer power in psychiatric services
- Author:
- BRANDON David
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 192p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Traces the history of mental illness services to the present day. Argues that the only way to improve these is to listen to the users, and to give them a say in the planning and running of services.