Wallcraft / Schrank / Amering Handbook of Service User Involvement in Mental Health Research

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-470-74314-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: World Psychiatric Association

Service user involvement in mental health research posesspecific challenges for both researchers and service users.
The book describes the relevant background and principlesunderlying the concept of service user involvement in mental healthresearch, providing relevant practical advice on how to engage withservice users and how to build and maintain research collaborationon a professional level. It highlights common practical problems inservice user involvement, based on experience from variouscountries with different social policies and suggests ways to avoidpitfalls and common difficulties.
The book helps researchers decide which level of service userinvolvement will be adequate for their research activities and whatwill be feasible in view of the practicalities involved. It is alsoideal for service users who are interested in becoming involved inresearch, providing relevant background information on thepossibilities of involvement in professional research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wallcraft, Jan

Schrank, Beate

Amering, Michaela

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword.
Preface.
About the Editors.
About the Authors.
Chapter 1 History, Context and Language (Jan Wallcraft andMary Nettle).
Chapter 2 Principles and Motives (Alison Faulkner).
Chapter 3 Levels and Stages (Angela Sweeney and LouiseMorgan).
Chapter 4 Values (Bill (KWM) Fulford and JanWallcraft).
Chapter 5 Roles (Jasna Russo and Peter Stastny).
Chapter 6 Capacity-building (Kim Hopper and AlisaLincoln).
Chapter 7 Purposes and Goals (Larry Davidson, PriscillaRidgway, Timothy Schmutte and Maria O'Connell).
Chapter 8 Topics (Paulo Del vecchio and Crystal R.Blyler).
Chapter 9 Methods (Jean Campbell).
Chapter 10 Service Users as Paid Researchers (Jonathan Delmanand Alisa Lincoln).
Chapter 11 Consultation (Virginia Minogue).
Chapter 12 Collaboration (Diana Rose).
Chapter 13 Control (Peter Beresford).
Chapter 14 Power (Paddy McGowan, Liam Mac Gabhann, ChrisStevenson and Jim Walsh).
Chapter 15 Money (Sarah Hamilton).
Chapter 16 Politics (Daniel B. Fisher).
Chapter 17 Good Practice Guidance (Beate Schrank and JanWallcraft).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Jan Wallcraft is manager of the Service User Research Groupfor England (SURGE). She has been a leading member of thesurvivor/service user movement for many years and has contributedto a number of publications, e.g. "On Our Own Terms: a report onthe mental health service user movement"; "Being There In ACrisis", and "Social Perspectives in Mental Health".
Beate Schrank has also worked for SURGE and has publishedon the concept of recovery in schizophrenia and on the use of theinternet by people with schizophrenia.
Michaela Amering is internationally acknowledged in thefield of public mental health and mental health policy. She haspublished on psychoeducation, informal carers (relatives),psychiatric advance directives and gender issues in mental healthcare, and has recently published a book on the 'recoveryperspective' and its relevance in the care for people withpsychosis. She has worked on user involvement issues in differentcountries and mental health care settings. She is secretary of theWorld Psychiatric Association Committee on Mental Health Policy.The English translation of her book on Recovery in Mental Healthwill also be published in March 2009.
All three editors have an impressive track record in the field ofuser involvement in mental health care.