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Travelling hopefully
- Authors:
- BASSET Thurstine, REPPER Julie
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, November 2005, pp.16-18.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This article discusses the role of hope for people with mental health problems and for people working in mental health services, and proposes a constructive cycle of hopefulness whereby hope leads to increasing opportunity.
Adjusting the focus of mental health nursing: incorporating service user's experiences of recovery
- Author:
- REPPER Julie
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 9(6), December 2000, pp.575-587.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Mental health nursing is currently torn by debate about its proper focus and function, with the two dominant 'camps' competing for ascendancy. Although both traditions stress the need to involve service users in their own care, the hegemonic nature of these professional theories tends to relegate the expertise of those who experience mental health problems. This article considers service users' views and experiences, particularly their accounts of recovery, and finds a place for both approaches. Users also highlight the importance of strategies for social inclusion (facilitating access to roles, responsibilities, relationships and communities) an area of work that has not been prioritised by mental health nurses in either approach. Service users differ from each other and have a range of different roles in different settings. In developing their own strategies for living they need choices, multiple perspectives, a range of approaches and skills.
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)
Campaign appears to influence subjective experience of stigma
- Authors:
- SCHNEIDER Justine, BEELEY Chris, REPPER Julie
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 20(1), 2011, pp.89-97.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Between September 2007 and Mental Health Awareness Week in October 2009, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust in England conducted an anti-stigma campaign. It hoped to reduce the general public’s stereotyped attitudes to mental health problems and mental health service users. The campaign's rationale was based on social contact theory, which holds that bringing together 2 groups can reduce inter-group hostility. This study evaluates the campaign's impact on removing barriers to service users’ employment, promoting recovery and social inclusion, reducing the incidence of discrimination, as well as dissipating stereotyped attitudes and self-stigma. Factor analysis of questionnaires returned by 243 service users revealed 3 key factors referring to service users’ perceptions of: public attitudes to mental health; service users’ relationships with staff; and other interpersonal relationships. Service users’ perceptions of public attitudes towards mental health were improved, suggesting a short term, successful outcome from the main thrust of the campaign. However, there was no significant effect on the other 2 factors. The authors conclude that certain aspects of stigma associated with mental health may be changed through targeted strategies and community-level interventions. But, there remains an intractable core of stigma experiences associated with interpersonal relationships with family and staff, discrimination and social interactions. Bullying, harassment and assault can occur. These hard core issues present the greatest challenge to future anti-stigma strategies.
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.