Mike Watts, Agnes Higgins

Gebundenes Buch

Narratives of Recovery from Mental Illness

The role of peer support

Beschreibung

This book explores the mental health recovery experiences of 26 people attending the international mutual help group 'GROW'. Using a narrative approach, the book presents richly detailed personal recovery stories and considers how different kinds of help facilitated, aided, or impeded recovery.

Autor

Mike Watts was, for many years the National Program Coordinator for GROW in Ireland. Based in Kilkenny he is currently involved in recovery research and works with diverse groups of service users, family members, mental health professionals, students and policy makers as part of a national endeavour to create a recovery oriented mental health service. Agnes Higgins has worked in the area of mental health practice and education for over thirty years and is currently is Professor in Mental Health at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She is involved in a number of research projects that are advancing understanding of the recovery experiences of people who experience mental health problems, as well as providing templates of collaborative and empowering research methods.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781138847996
• ISBN-10: 1138847992
• Artikelnr.: 43035736