Straight Talking Introduction to Being a Mental Health Service User
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Few of us would want to be a user of psychiatric services. It is a status associated with fear, stigma, isolation and disadvantage. This book takes a closer look at the realities for people and how to deal with them. It shows what may begin as a painful and unwanted experience can pave the way for new understandings and life chances and how psychiatric service users are coming together to bring about changes benefiting us all. A pocket sized, good value series of succinct, thought provoking introductions ideal for students in all mental health disciplines, psychiatric service users, carers and indeed everyone with an interest in mental health. Rather than accept that solutions to mental health problems are owned by the medical professions, these books look at alternatives and provide information so that the users of psychiatric services, their families and carers can make more decisions about their own lives.

Table of Contents:
Foreword: Jan Wallcraft Introduction Part One: 1. Setting the scene 2. The psychiatric system 3. The language of'mental health' Part Two: 4. The mental health service user/survivor movement 5. Mental health services and inequality 6. Issues of identity 7. From a medical to a social model Part Three: 8. Developing a new vision: Principles for the future 9. Developing a new vision: Survivor-led approaches to support 10.Developing a new vision: Routes to achieving change Part Four: Postscript: A broader view and next steps Endnote Contacts and resources Index

About the Author :
Peter Beresford is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Centre for Citizen Participation at Brunel University. He is a long term user of mental health services and Chair of Shaping Our Lives, the independent national user controlled organisation and network. Peter has a longstanding involvement in issues of participation and empowerment as researcher, writer, educator and activist.

Review :
This book offers valuable information, a message of hope and a call for collective action for real, sustainable change through practical stragegies - I wish it had been available when I was beginning my own recovery from mental distress and psychiatric treatment, and I hope it is widely read and shared by mental health service users and survivors and those who care for or about them'. Jan Wallcraft, survivor researcher, Honorary Fellow, University of Birmingham, Visiting Fellow, University of Hertfordshire


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781906254209
  • Publisher: Pccs Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Pccs Books
  • Height: 175 mm
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1906254206
  • Publisher Date: 30 Nov 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 142
  • Width: 114 mm


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