Mental health service users in research : critical sociological perspectives / edited by Patsy Staddon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Staddon, Patsy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental health services.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 188 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol, U.K. : Policy Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In examining how our identity shapes the knowledge we produce, <i>Mental Health Service Users in Research</i> considers ways of 'doing research' which bring multiple understandings together effectively, and explains the sociological use of autobiography and its relevance.

Contents:

Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Sociology and survivor research: an introduction; Watershed moments in survivor research; Sociology and survivors' voices; Reclaiming our voices; Conversations on a new footing: the significance of the British Library seminar series; Mental health service users' experiences and epistemological fallacy; Folie et déraison; The classic sick role; Differing expressions of illness; Mental 'illness'?; Sick roles and research roles; Implications for 'mental health' research; Epistemological fallacy

Doing good carer-led research: reflecting on 'Past Caring' methodologyIntroduction; Service user-led research; Research design; Participants; Participant reflections; Theorising service user involvement from a researcher perspective; Introduction; Researcher attitudes to PPI; Implications of PPI for research and researchers; Theoretical framing for research; Power issues; Skills; Running a project; Conclusion; How does who we are shape the knowledge we produce? Doing collaborative research about personality disorders; Introduction; The research project; The team; Methods; The analysis process

ReflectionsDiscussion: how who we are shaped the knowledge we produced in our research; How this approach informs collaborative research about personality disorders; Where do service users' knowledges sit in relation to professional and academic understandings of knowledge?; Introduction; Experiential knowledge; The broader context of disability; The broader context of user involvement; Experiential knowledge and competing ideologies; Experiential knowledge and research methodology; Generating survivor knowledge; The devaluing of experience-based research; Excluding service users' knowledge

Tensions between expert/professional and experiential knowledgeThe contribution of experiential knowledge; Recognition politics as a human rights perspective on service users' experiences of involvement in mental health services; Introduction: the policy context; Recognition politics as a perspective on human rights; The study; User involvement as recognition politics; Non-recognition and disrespect: being a 'user'5; Misrecognition: the discourse of mental illness; Conclusion; Theorising a social model of 'alcoholism': service users who misbehave; Introduction; The importance of alcohol

Alcohol use by womenAlcohol and disorder; The concept of 'alcoholism'; Illness as social dissonance; A sociological gaze; Accommodating difference; Conclusion; 'Hard to reach'? Racialised groups and mental health service user involvement; Introduction; Who is 'hard to reach'?; Issues in user involvement; Delivering race equality: the Ambassadors programme; Not that hard to reach: redefining user involvement; Implications for current practice; Individual narratives and collective knowledge: capturing lesbian, gay and bisexual service user experiences; Introduction

Marginalised memoirs and collective knowledge

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 Feb 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4473-0734-8

1-4473-0793-3

1-4473-0735-6

OCLC:

853496132