Voices of Experience - Basset, Thurstine; Stickley, Theo
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Voices of Experience contains a wide variety of stories and narratives written by mental health survivors. These stories explore the way in which the survivors have discovered, recovered, coped, grown, and thrived through their experience of living with mental health problems. Many have developed their own self-management techniques and strategies for living. All have found ways to combat the stigma and discrimination. The narratives emphasise the importance of peer support and self-help, but the book challenges simplistic explanations of recovery and offers a critical angle to our…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Voices of Experience contains a wide variety of stories and narratives written by mental health survivors. These stories explore the way in which the survivors have discovered, recovered, coped, grown, and thrived through their experience of living with mental health problems. Many have developed their own self-management techniques and strategies for living. All have found ways to combat the stigma and discrimination. The narratives emphasise the importance of peer support and self-help, but the book challenges simplistic explanations of recovery and offers a critical angle to our understanding of what it means to experience mental health problems. The skills and knowledge of the contributors offer a guide to anybody who may be struggling with 21st century life; they illustrate that those who have battled with the complexities of existence, and found their own unique ways of surviving, learning and moving on, can teach us all a great deal about how to live in our modern world. The editors reinforce the importance of storytelling in understanding a person's experience of mental health problems. They also offer guidance for mental health workers and professionals within the context of current mental health policies in the UK.
Autorenporträt
Thurstine Basset is a social worker who now runs his own independent training and development consultancy. His current clients include the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and Education not Discrimination at Rethink. He is the Chair of the Mental Health Training Forum, Middlesex University and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Brighton. Together with Theo Stickley, he is joint editor of Teaching Mental Health (Wiley, 2007) and Learning About Mental Health Practice (Wiley, 2008). Theo Stickley is Associate Professor of Mental Health in the School of Nursing at the University of Nottingham. Previously, he trained and worked in both mental health nursing and counselling. Theo has led on a number of educational research projects in collaboration with people who use mental health services. He uses narrative as a research method, especially amongst people engaging with arts activities. He leads the East Midlands Arts and Health Research Group; he is also a Director of City Arts, Nottingham, and leads the Art in Mind programme of work.
Rezensionen
"The book has much to offer therapists who counsel those recoveringand their carers, although its primary
target is other mental health professionals and researchers."(Therapy Today, 1 September 2011)

"They would also read of the value of the support provided byothers who demonstrate empathy and compassion. I highly recommendthis book and am happy to say a copy is now available in UWE'sGlenside library." (University of the West of England, 1 September2011)

"Appealing to both practitioners and patients, the book featuresstories and poems on surviving/recovering from mental illness,coping strategies, and recovery/discovery (the latter termpreferred by some)." (Booknews, 1 February 2011)

"One of the unique strengths of the book is that it straddlesthe usual divide between "professional" and "survivor" literature.Whilst the contributors are all service users or survivors, manyare also workers or academics, and the thoughtful introductionrelates the contributors' ideas to current debates... I wouldrecommend this book to all service users, survivors, mental healthworkers and students." (Open Mind, July/August 2011)

"First-person narrative accounts of illness form a substantialproportion of the literature... (these) narratives form aninteresting and well-edited collection." (Journal of Mental Health,December 2011)"A most welcome emphasis on the human meaning of mental healthproblems and the priceless value of human support. This bookreminds us of the drama of everyday life and the authors ofVoices of Experience invite us to become the heroes of ourown stories".
--Professor Phil Barker, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK…mehr