Living recovery : youth speak out on "owning" mental illness / JoAnn Elizabeth Leavey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leavey, JoAnn Elizabeth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth--Mental health.

Youth.

Youth--Interviews.

Mentally ill--Interviews.

Mentally ill.

Stigma (Social psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (165 p.)

Distribution:

Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2015.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Living Recovery provides critical information for practitioners and educators in mental health services about the self-described needs of young people diagnosed with mental illness. It portrays the stages of living with mental illness through the recovery model ELAR-emergence, loss, adaptation, and recovery.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""ONE: Framing the Context for Youth with Mental Illness""; ""Introduction""; ""Terms Used in This Book""; ""Who Is This Book For?""; ""Redefining Our Understanding of Mental “Illness�""; ""The Journey of Youth Through the Mental Health System""; ""Framing the Context for Youth Living with Mental Illness""; ""The Effects of a Mental Illness Diagnosis on Youth""; ""Youth, Metaphor, and Mental Illness""; ""Youth and the Social Construction of Mental Illness""; ""The Significance and Direction of This Work""; ""Summary""

""TWO: How Do Youth Experience Mental Illness?""""Prevalence of Mental Illness""; ""Growing Up: Forming Identity and Developmental Tasks for Young People""; ""Some Common Problems Experienced by Youth with Mental Illness""; ""Summary""; ""THREE: Youth Participants: Who Are They?""; ""Research Objectives""; ""Why Use Qualitative Research?""; ""The Interviews""; ""Demographic Profile of Participants""; ""My Impressions of Participants""; ""Summary""; ""FOUR: Youth Speak: Mental Health Experiences and Needs""; ""Data Analysis: Emergency, Loss, Adaptation, and Recovery (ELAR)""

""What Do Youth Have to Say?""""1. Emergence""; ""2. Loss""; ""3. Adaptation""; ""4. Recovery""; ""Summary""; ""FIVE: Understanding: Integrating the Results""; ""Integrating the Results and the Stages of Emergence, Loss, Adaptation, and Recovery""; ""General Context""; ""Developing Theory about Youth and Mental Illness: A Framework for Understanding""; ""Considerations for Practice""; ""The Stages of Emergence, Loss, Adaptation, and Recovery""; ""Integration and Implications of Key Findings""; ""Summary""; ""SIX: Where Are We and Where Do We Go from Here?""; ""Gap in Service Delivery""

""Significance of Early Intervention""""Implications and Suggestions for Testing the Theoretical Framework""; ""Adaptation: A Conceptual Approach""; ""Recovery and Wellness""; ""Implications and Suggestions for Future Program and Policy Design""; ""Limits and Benefits of This Research""; ""Suggestions for Future Research""; ""Conclusion""; ""Appendix""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-176) and index.

OCLC:

909233505