Empowerment, Lifelong Learning and Recovery in Mental Health. towards a New Paradigm

Description

The field of mental health is currently undergoing a considerable paradigm shift in terms of re-thinking core issues that have been taken for granted such as chronicity, deficits and strengths, ability for social inclusion, peer support, education, training and employment and the meaning of empowerment and recovery from mental illness. Inevitably a change of this magnitude within the complex system in which mental health services operate everywhere attracts responses ranging from the enthusiastic right through to the dismissive and hostile. How to enable service providers, users, carers and the general public to be open to the possibilities the shift can lead to, and to actively participate in the process of this change, forms a central part of the contributions to this book.

Contents

• List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction; P.Ryan, S.Ramon & T.Greacen

PART I: RECOVERY

• Recovery, Lifelong Learning, Empowerment & Social Inclusion: Is A New Paradigm Emerging?; H.Glover
• TREE: Towards Recovery, Empowerment and Experiential Expertise of Users of Psychiatric Services; W.Boevink
• Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP); B.Evans & K.Sault
• The Role of Mental Health Service Users in Recovery from Professional Stigma; R.W.Surber
• Developing Successful Recovery-Oriented Mental Health Services; J.Boardman & G.Shepherd

PART II: SOCIAL INCLUSION AND EMPLOYMENT

• Designing Policies to Foster the Community Inclusion of People in Recovery; L.Davidson, E.Flanagan, & T.Styron
• Employment and Social Inclusion: Implementing the Model and Facing the Reality; J.Schneider
• Overcoming Barriers to Empowerment; T.Greacen & E.Jouet

PART III: EMPOWERMENT AND LIFELONG LEARNING

• Empowerment: Key Concepts and Evidence Base; A.Baumann, P.Ryan &C.Griffiths
• Evaluating Service User Involvement in Mental Health Services; D.C.Keay
• Lifelong Learning, Mental Health and Higher Education: A UK Focus; J.Anderson & J.Holmshaw
• Lifelong Learning and Wellbeing: The Health Benefits of Lifelong Learning for People With Mental Illness; J.Ogunleye, C.Griffiths, I.Dawson & K.Nyberg
• Stakeholders' Lifelong Learning and Organisational Change Experiences in the Context of the EMILIA Project; M.Kaunonen & S.Ramon
• 'Getting on with Your Life': A User's Experience of Participating in the EMILIA Project; T.K.Nilsen
• Service Users' Experiences of Lifelong Learning; I.Nieminen & T.K.Nilsen
• Mental Health Service Users as Trainers in the Context of the EMILIA Project; T.Stenfors-Hayes & P.Ryan
• Index