Thurstine Basset, Theo Stickley

Broschiertes Buch

Voices of Experience

Narratives of Mental Health Survivors

Beschreibung

Voices of Experience contains a wide range of stories written by mental health survivors. The narratives illustrate how survivors have developed self-management techniques and strategies for living which, together, offer a guide to anybody struggling with 21st century life. * Explores a wide variety of mental distress experiences, underpinned by many different explanations and beliefs * Narrative has been central to the recovery approach and this book presents stories of recovery as well as an appraisal of the concept * Challenges simplistic explanations of recovery and offers a critical angle to our understanding of what it means to experience mental health problems * Offers guidance for mental health workers and professionals within the context of current mental health policies in the UK

Autor

Thurstine Basset is a social worker who now runs his own independent training and development consultancy. His current clients include the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and Education not Discrimination at Rethink. He is the Chair of the Mental Health Training Forum, Middlesex University and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Brighton. Together with Theo Stickley, he is joint editor of Teaching Mental Health (Wiley, 2007) and Learning About Mental Health Practice (Wiley, 2008). Theo Stickley is Associate Professor of Mental Health in the School of Nursing at the University of Nottingham. Previously, he trained and worked in both mental health nursing and counselling. Theo has led on a number of educational research projects in collaboration with people who use mental health services. He uses narrative as a research method, especially amongst people engaging with arts activities. He leads the East Midlands Arts and Health Research Group; he is also a Director of City Arts, Nottingham, and leads the Art in Mind programme of work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 165mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780470683620
• ISBN-10: 0470683627
• Artikelnr.: 33137305

Rezensionen

"The book has much to offer therapists who counsel those recoveringand their carers, although its primary
target is other mental health professionals and researchers."(Therapy Today, 1 September 2011)

"They would also read of the value of the support provided byothers who demonstrate empathy and compassion. I highly recommendthis book and am happy to say a copy is now available in UWE'sGlenside library." (University of the West of England, 1 September2011)

"Appealing to both practitioners and patients, the book featuresstories and poems on surviving/recovering from mental illness,coping strategies, and recovery/discovery (the latter termpreferred by some)." (Booknews, 1 February 2011)

"One of the unique

strengths of the book is that it straddlesthe usual divide between "professional" and "survivor" literature.Whilst the contributors are all service users or survivors, manyare also workers or academics, and the thoughtful introductionrelates the contributors' ideas to current debates... I wouldrecommend this book to all service users, survivors, mental healthworkers and students." (Open Mind, July/August 2011)

"First-person narrative accounts of illness form a substantialproportion of the literature... (these) narratives form aninteresting and well-edited collection." (Journal of Mental Health,December 2011)"A most welcome emphasis on the human meaning of mental healthproblems and the priceless value of human support. This bookreminds us of the drama of everyday life and the authors ofVoices of Experience invite us to become the heroes of ourown stories".
--Professor Phil Barker, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK