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Mad to work here...
- Authors:
- DAVIDSON Ben, PERKINS Rachel
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 8.10.97, 1997, pp.26-30.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Describes the Pathfinder User Employment Project which helps to give mental health service users the chance to transcend their patient status by employing them within the sector.
Recovery versus risk? from managing risk to the co-production of safety and opportunity
- Authors:
- PERKINS Rachel, REPPER Julie
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 20(2), 2016, pp.101-109.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose a recovery-focused approach to risk and safety and what this might look like in practice. Design/methodology/approach: Review of recovery approaches and the ways in which traditional approaches to risk might hinder people in their recovery journey. Consideration of the principles of a recovery-focused approach to safety. Findings: A recovery-focused approach to risk based on co-produced safety plans that enable people to do the things they value as safely as possible and shared responsibility for safety. Four key principles of a recovery-focused approach to promoting safety, autonomy and opportunity are proposed. Originality/value: A recovery-focused approach to risk and safety is central to the development of recovery-focused practice within services. This paper outlines such an approach. (Publisher abstract)
Different but normal: language, labels and professional mental health practice
- Authors:
- PERKINS Rachel, REPPER Julie
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 2(3), November 1998, pp.90-93.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
The words we use to describe mental illness and people with mental health problems speak volumes about our attitudes to and beliefs about mental ill health. Argues that mental health nurses should be mindful of the hugely significant role language plays, socially and professionally, in perpetuating discrimination, and of its potential as a tool for social change.
A tricky act to balance
- Authors:
- REPPER Julie, PERKINS Rachel
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 18.3.98, 1998, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Discusses the dilemma facing mental health nurses as on the one hand they are expected to provide services in accordance with the wishes of service users, and on the other faced with increasing demands that both the public and services users are protected.
Dilemmas in community mental health practice: choice or control
- Authors:
- PERKINS Rachel, REPPER Julie
- Publisher:
- Radcliffe Medical Press
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 157p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
Examines the power and demands of the various groups involved in the provision and use of community mental health services, and considers different practice options and their values and goals. Discusses who should receive services, the prioritisation of severe mental illness, the rights of users and the nature of compliance, the involvement of users, the provision of practical home care, professional roles, the role of families and carers, and measuring outcomes.