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The citizenship of excluded groups: challenging the consumerist agenda
- Authors:
- BOLZAN Natalie, GALE Fran
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 36(4), August 2002, pp.363-375.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The language of consumerism suggests that through involvement in consumer processes, consumers can influence policy formation and service provision. This article examines how two groups of consumers in Australia, people with mental health problems and older people, engage with the consumer process. Looks at how they positioned themselves as active citizens, having agency not as individual consumers, but through drawing on networks. The findings suggests that it is possible for social policy programmes for both people with mental illness and older people to develop in a context of greater inclusivity.
Mental health practice and children: dogma, discourse, debate and practice
- Author:
- FAWCETT Barbara
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Mental Health, 2(2/3), 2004, pp.195-205.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
In the field of mental health, debates range along opposing axes with the protection of the public on one axis and the citizenship and human rights of the individual on the other. There is also considerable contestation for ideological and theoretical dominance about how mental distress should be viewed and responded to. Discourses alternatively emphasising protection, control and compulsion, and rights, citizenship autonomy and self-determination have added impetus when applied to children and young people. This is also a grouping denied a voice both in terms of individual treatment programmes and in the formulation of policy and practice. This article addresses the key debates and appraises the implications of changing policy and practice for children and young people experiencing mental distress in the UK. Although the discussion is located in a particular national context, the emergent themes have a much broader relevance for debates, policy and practice in the international arena. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)
Citizenship and community in mental health: a joint national programme for social inclusion and community partnership
- Author:
- MORRIS David
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 6(3), September 2001, pp.21-24.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Describes the key themes and projects of the Citizenship and Community Programme, an 18 month project.
Unequal partners: user groups and community care
- Authors:
- BARNES Marian, et al
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 114p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Empirical study looking at user groups and 'officials' in two policy areas: mental health and disability. Examines the strategies user groups adopt to seek their objectives, and explores conceptual issues relating to notions of consumerism and citizenship. Discusses the way in which self organisation may be supported without being controlled by officials in statutory agencies, highlighting the need to understand and distinguish between user self organisation and user involvement. Concludes that if policy makers are genuinely committed to greater user involvement in design, planning and delivery of services, then user self organisation needs to be both encouraged and supported without being subsumed into 'management'.
From passive recipient to active citizen: participation in mental health user groups
- Authors:
- BARNES Marian, SHARDLOW Polly
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 6(3), June 1997, pp.289-300.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
This article use the concept of citizenship to understand the objectives of self-organisation among users of mental health services. It is based on research conducted for the ESRC Local Governance Programme and addresses issues relating to the governance of services, as well as the individual and collective empowerment of users. Studies of three very different user groups led to the conclusion that, not only do such groups have a role to play in ensuring that individual users' rights are respected, but also enable people with mental health problems to play a role in enhancing the accountability of services and support their wider participation as 'active citizens'.
Effective consumers and active citizens: strategies for users' influence on service and beyond
- Authors:
- BARNES Marian, SHARDLOW Polly
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 14(1), 1996, pp.33-38.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Draws on research undertaken as part of the ESRC Local Governance Programme investigating the objectives and strategies of mental health service users' and disabled people's groups. It distinguishes between strategies based on 'consumerism' and those based on 'citizenship' and provides examples of practical achievements by, as well as barriers to the influence of, service user activists.
User involvement in the education of mental health nurses: an evaluation of possibilities
- Author:
- HOPTON John
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 42, Winter 1994, pp.47-60.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Argues that the substantive empowerment of users of mental health services can be most effectively achieved by employing service users as educators of neophyte mental health professionals. Using British mental health nursing as a case study, this issue is discussed with reference to the occupational culture of nursing and the wider social-political context. Concludes that despite a rhetoric of 'citizenship' and user involvement in the planning of public services, the internal contradictions of Thatcherism and Majorism mitigate against the implementation of such radical change.
Working for inclusion: making social inclusion a reality for people with severe mental health problems
- Editor:
- BATES Peter
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 282p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This resource has been written to help the users and staff of mental health services think about citizenship and social inclusion. It is also written for people who live and work in other areas of the community and share the concern that people with mental health difficulties receive a fair deal. Contents include: defining tings; inclusion as a new paradigm; inclusion in the whole of life; evaluation; modernising services.
Users as citizens: collective action and the local governance of welfare
- Author:
- BARNES Marian
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 33(1), March 1999, pp.73-90.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Drawing on theories of new social movements and of citizenship, this article considers the developing place of user organisations within systems of local governance. It looks at the way in which groups have sought to assert the legitimacy both of experimental knowledge and of their position as citizens in the face of official responses which have constructed them as self-interested pressure groups. It draws on empirical research investigating local groups of disabled people and of mental health service users conducted in the first part of the 1990s. The article considers likely future roles for groups comprising of people often excluded from community.
Community care, ideology and social policy
- Author:
- COWEN Harry
- Publisher:
- Prentice Hall
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 262p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Hemel Hempstead
Offers a comprehensive evaluation of community care strategies within the context of government social policy, and assesses the shifts in political power from Conservative to Labour towards the end of the century. Includes chapters on: the history of community care; health services and community care policy; social services, community care and the market; older people and community care; disabled people; mental health, homelessness and housing policies; women and community care; black and minority ethnic groups; and citizenship, participation and community care.