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The Speakers Bureau: a voice in the media
- Author:
- FURNER Ben
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 12(3), August 2008, pp.15-17.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The Shift Speakers Bureau is a volunteer databank of around 40 people with mental health conditions or carers who can provide interviews and talk to the media about issues related to living with mental distress. The Bureau aims to increase understanding around mental health and reduce stigma and discrimination. This article looks at the work of the Bureau.
Death by a thousand pin pricks
- Author:
- FORREST Emma
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 20.04.06, 2006, pp.22-24.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Users of mental health services still often fall victim to prejudices that threaten their careers, social lives and general well-being. The author investigates what can be done to tackle it. The article includes details of Shift, a national anti-stigma campaign operating in England.
Keep quiet about it
- Author:
- CARTER Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.12.05, 2005, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
This article looks at the personal experience of the stigma of mental health in a sample of people with mental health problems. Seventy-five people took part in the study which was carried out by North West Wales NHS Trust. Results show that stigma and the fear of negative reactions form others because of mental health problems are prevalent. A lower proportion of discrimination was reported compared to the experience of stigma. Future research will need to examine strategies found to be helpful in coping with stigma.
The media get the message
- Authors:
- BISPHAM Pauline, CAMERON Ian
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.02.07, 2007, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
This article describes the innovative approach taken by Leeds Primary Care Trust and the city's social services, the voluntary sector and the service users to tackle the negative portrayal of mental health in the media. An evaluation has show that, by working with media producers and increasing the media skills of service users, more intelligent, positive coverage can be achieved.
Can we talk?: using facilitated dialogue to positively change student attitudes towards persons with mental illness
- Authors:
- SCHEYETT Anna, KIM Mimi
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 24(1/2), 2004, pp.39-54.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
To facilitate the recovery of people with mental illness (users of mental health services), social workers must be strengths-focused and believe in the potential for service users growth and improvement. Describes a facilitated dialogue process between service users and master's level social work students in the USA that had a goal of positively shifting students' attitudes towards consumers. Pre/post-tests using standardised instruments, as well as post-dialogue semi-structured interviews, showed that the dialogue was effective in improving student attitudes towards consumers. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
The study of mental distress and the (re)construction of identities in men and women with experience of long-term mental distress
- Authors:
- TIMANDER Ann-Charlott, GRINYER Anne, MOLLER Anders
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 30(3), 2015, pp.327-339.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article explores the possibility of using a theoretical framework drawn from disability studies in the field of mental health, and the study of identity (re)construction in the recovery process. In this PhD project, 33 narratives were analysed using framework analysis. The analysis showed that disablism was present and powerful in the participants’ lives, and also showed how disablism shaped how the participants thought and felt about themselves. As Carol Thomas argues, when analysing disablism one should also focus on who we are and are prevented from being, as disabled people. The conclusion is that processes of oppression were central when it comes to understanding the (re)construction of identities. A disability studies perspective is thus relevant in the field of mental distress, and can be used to enhance the understanding of the process of identity (re)construction. (Publisher abstract)
Mental health champions spread word
- Author:
- DUNNING Jeremy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.5.10, 2010, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The Putting Us First project, overseen by charity Mind, aimed to increase the take up of personalised care among mental health services users and change professional attitudes. Four mental health service users receiving self-directed care were appointed to champion personalisation in their areas. This article discusses some of the findings of the project. A short case study of one of the Mental Health champions is also provided.
“Nuts, schiz, psycho”: an exploration of young homeless people's perceptions and dilemmas of defining mental health
- Authors:
- O'REILLY Michelle, TAYLOR Helen C., VOSTANIS Panos
- Journal article citation:
- Social Science and Medicine, 68(9), May 2009, pp.1737-1744.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This research explores the term ‘mental health’ as articulated by a group of young people living in homeless shelters utilising staff in a mental health service. This mental health service was offered in 5 large geographical areas (urban, semi-urban and rural) in England to 18 homeless shelters and we interviewed 25 homeless young people, 5 Mental Health Coordinators and 12 homeless shelter staff. Using discourse analysis of semi-structured interviews, the ideological dilemmas presented by the young people were investigated. They report negative and stigmatising descriptions of mental health despite their involvement with a mental health service. Four key interpretative repertoires are identified; denial of problems, mental health as negative, the need to talk, and challenging prejudice. It is concluded that the term ‘mental health’, which appears in the title of the service (of which they are clients), presents barriers for usage but works to challenge prejudice and educate young people. Discussion of the implications of naming services and the importance of shared meanings are considered.
Smoking, stigma and human rights in mental health; going up in smoke?
- Author:
- WARNER Joanne
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 8(2), April 2009, pp.275-286.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Debates about the ban on smoking in public places have centred on the right to self-determination and privacy versus the right to health. This paper addresses the issue of smoking in relation to mental health and focuses on the right to dignity and respect. The public health agenda on smoking has involved the mobilisation of stigma to persuade people to give up. The paper argues that this strategy risks adding to the stigma and process of ‘othering’ that many mental health service users already experience and is also likely to be ineffective in reducing smoking rates, particularly among heavy smokers.
(Re)considering voice
- Author:
- GRAY Jennie
- Journal article citation:
- Qualitative Social Work, 6(4), December 2007, pp.411-430.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article considers some of complexities around a feminist imperative of `voice'. It is a reflective dialogue that follows the possibilities and problematics encountered in a social inquiry aimed at creating space for the women who participated to `give voice' as a collective. Our explorations about the ways that these women, diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, come to experience their everyday worlds as they do, involved identifying the social processes and practices shaping their lived actualities. Speaking together and back to the discourses of biomedicine that work to position these women in fixed and universal ways was also central to our researching. That the woman's voice goes largely unheard when spoken from `madness' made such work more urgent. As our navigations of speaking together shows, however, this was not as straightforward as we had envisaged: because the circumstances that produce experiences of oppression are rarely simple, social change efforts to ameliorate inequities will necessarily need to be nuanced. This polyphonic discussion honours the respective contributions to our knowledge-making endeavours, and tells of a project cast in feminism's `with'.