The lived experience in mental health / Gary Morris, Nursing Lecturer, University of Leeds, UK.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Gary, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness--Anecdotes.

Mental illness.

Mental illness--Diagnosis.

Mental illness--Treatment.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The importance of recognising the knowledge and the needs of service users and engaging them more proactively within the care process is now widely acknowledged but it isn't always clear how this can come about. The Lived Experience in Mental Health highlights individuals' own lived and felt mental health experience, in order to share their expertise about mental health problems and the care offered. This text begins by exploring the importance of engaging with the internal world of those living with various mental health problems, and reflecting upon personal narratives as means of expressing and sharing experience, as well as the status of these narratives as 'evidence'. The central section of the book looks at five commonly experienced mental health states: anxiety problems, depression, mood extremes, states of altered reality (linked, for example, with psychosis and schizophrenia) and impaired cognition (linked, for example, with dementia). The chapters look at how the mental state in question is experienced, including the experience of it in the context of the wider world, where health and social services and the responses of other people play a part. Drawing on personal narratives from a wide range of sources, this text foregrounds the voices of experts by experience and relates them to the academic literature. The narratives collectively convey a breadth of experience including both concepts of struggling and living well with mental health issues. The book ends by outlining resources where a range of first-person narratives can be accessed, from online forums to films, and providing a strategy for teaching and learning associated with the exploration of lived experience narratives. Designed for health professionals working with people experiencing mental health problems, this illuminating text uses personal narratives to emphasise the importance of person-centred care and participation by service users in their own care. It will also be an interesting read for experts by experience themselves as well as their families and friends. Book jacket.

Contents:

part 1. Lived experience and learning

part 2. The lived experience in mental health

part 3. Embracing lived experience narratives.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781315381916

9781315321523

OCLC:

966385858

Access Restriction:

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