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Consumers as colleagues
- Authors:
- BRANDON Althea, BRANDON David
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 33p., illus., bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
A friend to alleged lunatics
- Author:
- BRANDON David
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, October 2007, pp.37-39.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
John Thomas Perceval founded the first ever user-led advocacy service, the Alleged Lunatics' Friends Society in 1845. The author discusses the work of John Perceval and how his beliefs about mental distress and recovery resonate with those of the service user/survivor and advocacy movements today.
Peer advocacy
- Author:
- BRANDON David
- Journal article citation:
- Care in Place the International Journal of Networks and Community, 1(3), December 1994, pp.218-224.
People with disabilities are disempowered by changes in delivery of services in non-hospital settings. In Canada many developments have been achieved in advanced service delivery systems, beyond the limited designs elsewhere. None the less, these influences have reached services in the UK, where brokerage services have been established in some settings. Three clear stages have emerged in the analysis of successful advocacy systems: ad hoc pressure by individuals; demonstration pilot schemes; mainstream provision.
How users can shape services
- Author:
- BRANDON David
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 1(2), December 1994, pp.9-13.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
People with mental health problems are more likely to receive individualised services if they are able to be direct, suggests the author, Describes the origins of the idea and how it could be introduced in Britain.
Money for change?
- Author:
- BRANDON David
- Journal article citation:
- Care in Place the International Journal of Networks and Community, 1(3), December 1994, pp.211-217.
Traces the history of peer advocacy in mental health services. Explores alternate definitions of the term, and provides some examples of action linked with changes in the citizens advocacy movement. Staff resistance to these changes are documented, with possible explanations for the dynamic. Other obstacles to change are identified, with an attempt to define essential features of the model in action.
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.