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Waiting for something better: stories of adversity, resilience, mental health and hope
- Authors:
- WEBB Nick, WALDING Ella, HARRINGTON Jean
- Publisher:
- Innovation Unit
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 54
- Place of publication:
- London
This is a book of, and about, stories, collected through close observation and ‘being with’ storytellers themselves, capturing the lived experience of ‘mental health’. In an important sense they are not stories of mental health – that is too narrow. They are, more accurately, stories of adversity, and the ways in which it affects life experience and outcomes, including mental health. Through these stories we can start to see how mental health is currently ‘done’ - in other words how it is described, how mental health services and systems are designed, how power and resources are distributed, and the practices that shape how people receive, interpret and experience care and support. These stories alone do not provide answers, instead they are an invitation to engage, to ask questions. They trigger compassionate empathy, an ability to connect with what people are living through and, crucially, to either take, or help them to take action to feel better and live well. Towards the end of this book we offer an analysis of the stories, and identify key insights: people have complex lives, not complex mental health; why people fall through the gaps; moving towards caring, strength based systems; from just coping to growing; remaining hopeful despite everything. (Edited publisher abstract)
Direct payments in mental health: what are they being used for? 2
- Author:
- CARE SERVICES IMPROVEMENT PARTNERSHIP
- Publisher:
- Care Services Improvement Partnership
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
A selection of examples showing the ways in which direct payments can or are being used in place of mental health services in a number of local authorities. The examples have been drawn from reports, studies and those working with the direct payments element of the National Social Inclusion Programme.
When social work students meet workers with mental-health lived-experience: a case study
- Authors:
- KRAUS Eran, MORAN Galia S.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Education (The International Journal), 38(7), 2019, pp.861-874.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Mental Health Workers with Lived Experience of mental illness (MHWLE) are a growing workforce in countries veering to recovery orientation in mental health services. MHWLE entrance into the workforce challenges conventional role-definitions and practices in mental health services. This case study portrays issues raised by social work students following a workshop with MHWLE as part of their graduate-level training. A workshop with MHWLE was designed for 24 social work graduate students during a mental health seminar. Following the workshop, a focus group was held. The students’ thoughts and experiences during the workshop were collected and analyzed. Thematic analysis of the topics raised by the students included three main categories: (i) Experience of confusion about MHWLE role, (ii) Controversies regarding MHWLE disclosure of lived experience, and (iii) Concerns about boundary setting by MHWLE. Connecting MHWLE with social work students in academic settings can help better prepare social workers for the encounter with peer services in the mental health field, and support harmonization of this new yet rapidly growing workforce in mental health. In addition, the students had an opportunity to self-reflect and explore their own views and experiences regarding fundamental aspects of professional identity and their own practices in general. (Edited publisher abstract)
How can the benefits of personal budgets for people with mental illness be sustained after the payments stop?
- Authors:
- CLEWETT Naomi, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 31(2), 2014/15, pp.105-126.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
One aim of mental health social work is to promote recovery and independence for people accessing services. Personal budgets, which can now be requested by all mental health service users in England, can enable service users to achieve these outcomes. This paper addresses the lack of evidence on service user understandings of the purpose and duration of their personal budget, and their experiences of personal budgets ending. The research draws on interviews with 53 mental health service users and 28 practitioners. The results identify how different factors affect the sustainability of the outcome: the type of outcome identified, how far service user and practitioner understanding of outcomes are shared, and the ability to continue activities after the budget ends. The article highlights learning for practitioners and policy makers on improving the sustainability of outcomes achieved through personal budgets, and improving service user experiences of their endings. (Edited publisher abstract)
Volunteer to Work (V2W) scheme
- Author:
- KAUR Japleen
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 18(1), 2014, pp.21-28.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the Volunteer to Work scheme running as part of a return to work pathway. Design/methodology/approach: Illustrative account of the origin, structure and processes involved. Findings: Personal narrative accounts by current volunteers evidence the social and emotional benefits of volunteering. Of the 237 people who have engaged as volunteers, 27 are now in paid employment. Originality/value: A case study of one innovative project which has the capacity to grow and to be transferred to other organisations. (Publisher abstract)
Service users involvement in research and teaching: is there a place for it in eastern European social work
- Authors:
- ZAVIRSEK Darja, VIDEMSEK Petra
- Journal article citation:
- Ljetopis Socijalnog Rada, 16(2), December 2009, pp.207-222.
- Publisher:
- University of Zagreb
- Place of publication:
- Zagreb
The article presents three major prerequisites for users participation in research: the ‘narrative turn’ in social sciences and in social work; the impact of disability movements and other social movements in local contexts for the development of user participation; the need for the development of an anti-paternalistic, strengths and resilience-oriented perspective of the professionals towards service users. In Eastern European countries which lack all of these three essentials, user participation and involvement in research still demand a lot of cultural and professional changes. This article presents two 2007 case studies of user involvement in research and teaching in Slovenia, where a group of mental health service users from Ljubljana were trained to become researchers in group homes for people with mental health problems. They had proven, like most of the western studies on this matter, the need for participatory research in social work in order to gain a deeper understanding of the everyday experiences of service users. Since 1999 more service users, especially those experiencing mental health problems were invited to give lectures and seminars to the social work students at the University of Ljubljana. The article analyses their experiences including the one of the ‘glass ceiling’ in the dominant culture of the power-knowledge discourse.
Discourses of consumption or consumed by discourse? A consideration of what "consumer" means to the service user
- Author:
- SPEED E.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 16(3), June 2007, pp.307-318.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
This article considers discourses of consumption, in a mental health context, from data collected in the Republic of Ireland. Drawing on typifications of western welfare regimes, it will consider processes of commodification and consumption. The purpose of this paper is to explore the political connotations of the consumer discourse and to focus attention on the implications of utilizing discourse(s) of consumption for service users. Data were generated through interviews with ten mental health service users who were members of mental health social movement organizations. This was analysed using a discourse-analytic technique. The analysis considers consumer discourse(s) and delimits the utility of this way of talking about being a service user. The impacts and inferences of using a consumer discourse are identified. Under some conditions it can be a positive event for the healthcare consumer, but the discourse tends to favour the healthcare professional and/or the state, in that it implicitly reasserts the primacy of the medical model. The consumer discourse is a complex construct that speaks to and for both the state and the service user. However, use of this discourse carries political and therapeutic connotations for the service user. The political connotations relate to the consumer discourse as a feature of a state sanctioned re-positioning of healthcare provision within a more explicitly market based context. The therapeutic connotations relate to a lack of genuine alternative explanatory systems to that of the medical model and an often implicit championing of medical discourses as evidenced in the consumer discourse.
Foucault gets into nursing
- Author:
- SHARKEY Valerie
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 24.11.99, 1999, pp.50-51.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
How useful is philosophy to nursing? This article looks at the relevance of the ideas of the modern French philosopher Michel Foucault on knowledge and power. Discusses the notion of the 'clinical gaze' in relation to the treatment of a man with mental health problems and mild learning difficulties.
Art and mental health recovery: evaluating the impact of a community-based participatory arts program through artist voices
- Author:
- BONE Tracey A.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 54(8), 2018, p.1180–1188.
- Publisher:
- Springer
This study sought to evaluate the impact of participation in a 6-month community-based participatory arts programme on mental health recovery. Using a case study methodology, a total of nine recent graduates from one of five separate groups held during the study period (2012–2015) were interviewed. All but one of the nine participants reported positive personal, emotional, physical and/or mental health changes as a result of her or his participation in the programme. Voices of all participants are explored. Analysis of the interviews revealed four key themes: safe space to create, change in identity, biggest impact, and programme-related challenges. This study supports community-based arts programming as a positive experience for people living with mental illness. Employing staff and volunteers with lived experience of mental health problems enhanced the overall participant experience. (Edited publisher abstract)
Together for mental health: annual report 2012-2013
- Author:
- WALES. Welsh Government
- Publisher:
- Welsh Government
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 46
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
'Together for Mental Health' is the Welsh Government’s all-age inclusive, whole population strategy for mental health and wellbeing, which was launched in October 2012. This first annual report is a national overview which sets out local progress against the strategy in its first year and outlines priorities for 2014. All 7 local partnership boards (based on Local Health Board area) and NHS Trusts have produced their own local annual reports. It provides examples of good practice and service provision in localities across Wales. An annex provides initial assessments of some of the High Strategy Outcome measures that were set out in 'Together for Mental Health'. (Edited publisher abstract)