World Mental Health Day
To mark World Mental Health Day we've pulled together this collection of journal articles about mental health. They are all free to read until 27 October 2019.
Psychosocial aesthetics and the art of lived experience
Authors: Bennett, Jill; Froggett, Lynn; Muller, Lizzie
This article identifies the distinctive nature of arts-based psychosocial enquiry and practice in a public mental health context, focusing on two projects delivered as part of The Big Anxiety festival, in Sydney, Australia in 2017.
Psychosocial studies and the practice of psychology: a South African perspective
Psychosocial aesthetics and the art of lived experience
Authors: Bennett, Jill; Froggett, Lynn; Muller, Lizzie
This article identifies the distinctive nature of arts-based psychosocial enquiry and practice in a public mental health context, focusing on two projects delivered as part of The Big Anxiety festival, in Sydney, Australia in 2017.
Psychosocial studies and the practice of psychology: a South African perspective
Author: Saville Young, Lisa
This paper explores the relationship between psychosocial studies and the practice of psychology, with a view to considering how each might enhance the other. The author argues that, given South Africa’s high levels of poverty and unequal access to mental health resources, novel ways of providing psychological services is needed and this is where psychosocial studies and a responsive practice of applied psychology might be enlivened together.
Let's stop feeding the risk monster: towards a social model of 'child protection
This paper explores the relationship between psychosocial studies and the practice of psychology, with a view to considering how each might enhance the other. The author argues that, given South Africa’s high levels of poverty and unequal access to mental health resources, novel ways of providing psychological services is needed and this is where psychosocial studies and a responsive practice of applied psychology might be enlivened together.
Let's stop feeding the risk monster: towards a social model of 'child protection
Authors: Featherstone, Brid; Gupta, Anna; Morris, Kate; Warner, Joanne
This article explores how the child protection system currently operates in England. It analyses how policy and practice has developed, and articulates the need for an alternative approach. It draws from the social model as applied in the fields of disability and mental health, to begin to sketch out more hopeful and progressive possibilities for children, families and communities
Mental illness, stigma and belonging in family relationships
This article explores how the child protection system currently operates in England. It analyses how policy and practice has developed, and articulates the need for an alternative approach. It draws from the social model as applied in the fields of disability and mental health, to begin to sketch out more hopeful and progressive possibilities for children, families and communities
Mental illness, stigma and belonging in family relationships
Author: Ketokivi, Kaisa
This article examines how belonging in Finnish families is negotiated in the presence of mental illness.
Familialistic countries need a family-inclusive service when caring for people with mental health problems – the case of Malta
This article examines how belonging in Finnish families is negotiated in the presence of mental illness.
Familialistic countries need a family-inclusive service when caring for people with mental health problems – the case of Malta
Authors: Abela, Angela; Farrugia, Ruth; Vella, Anna Maria; DeGiovanni, Katya
This article starts by setting the context for Maltese families with a member who has mental health problems by providing an overview of the mental health services on offer.
Practitioners' understanding of barriers to accessing specialist support by family carers of people with dementia in distress
This article starts by setting the context for Maltese families with a member who has mental health problems by providing an overview of the mental health services on offer.
Practitioners' understanding of barriers to accessing specialist support by family carers of people with dementia in distress
Authors: Manthorpe, Jill; Hart, Cathryn; Watts, Sue; Goudie, Fiona; Charlesworth, Georgina; Fossey, Jane; Moniz-Cook, Esme
Distressing symptoms in dementia are hard to manage for many family carers. This article explores practitioners' perceptions of the barriers to accessing skilled behaviour management support encountered by carers.
Health effects of informal caring in New Zealand: longitudinal findings from the Health, Work and Retirement study
Distressing symptoms in dementia are hard to manage for many family carers. This article explores practitioners' perceptions of the barriers to accessing skilled behaviour management support encountered by carers.
Health effects of informal caring in New Zealand: longitudinal findings from the Health, Work and Retirement study
Authors: Alpass, Fiona; Szabo, Agnes; Allen, Joanne; Stephens, Christine
This study investigates changes in the mental and physical health of carers compared to non-carers over 10 years in a sample of New Zealanders aged 54–70.
Responding to complexity: improving service provision for survivors of domestic abuse with ‘complex needs’
This study investigates changes in the mental and physical health of carers compared to non-carers over 10 years in a sample of New Zealanders aged 54–70.
Responding to complexity: improving service provision for survivors of domestic abuse with ‘complex needs’
Authors: Harris, Lyndsey; Hodges, Kathryn
This paper discusses the findings of a mixed-methods research study conducted in an English city, Nottingham. The study examined the ‘Response to Complexity’ (R2C) project, aimed at increasing support for survivors of domestic and sexual abuse with ‘complex needs’ (defined by services as: substance and/or alcohol misuse and/or mental health and/or English as a foreign language).
Making Sense of Madness: Revisiting R.D. Laing
This paper discusses the findings of a mixed-methods research study conducted in an English city, Nottingham. The study examined the ‘Response to Complexity’ (R2C) project, aimed at increasing support for survivors of domestic and sexual abuse with ‘complex needs’ (defined by services as: substance and/or alcohol misuse and/or mental health and/or English as a foreign language).
Making Sense of Madness: Revisiting R.D. Laing
Author: Ferguson, Iain
The 1960s saw a challenge to the dominant ideas not only in areas such as women's oppression and the position of black people, but also in relation to mental health.
Education for critical practice in mental health: opportunities and challenges
The 1960s saw a challenge to the dominant ideas not only in areas such as women's oppression and the position of black people, but also in relation to mental health.
Education for critical practice in mental health: opportunities and challenges
Author: Sapouna, Lydia
This article discusses an approach to mental health education that aims to prepare students to become critical practitioners with the vision and skills to understand human distress in life contexts.
Social movements in mental health: the case of the Critical Voices Network Ireland
This article discusses an approach to mental health education that aims to prepare students to become critical practitioners with the vision and skills to understand human distress in life contexts.
Social movements in mental health: the case of the Critical Voices Network Ireland
Authors: Sapouna, Lydia; Gijbels, Harry
Over recent years new social movements have emerged to address concerns about a dominant bio-psychiatric approach to mental health care.
Realising Sedgwick's vision: theorising strategies of resistance to neoliberal mental health and welfare policy
Over recent years new social movements have emerged to address concerns about a dominant bio-psychiatric approach to mental health care.
Realising Sedgwick's vision: theorising strategies of resistance to neoliberal mental health and welfare policy
Authors: Moth, Rich; McKeown, Mick
There has recently been renewed interest in non-reductive historical materialist modes for analysing social movements, of which the work of mental health activist and Marxist theorist Peter Sedgwick is a precursor.
A front-line mental health social work perspective on neoliberal workplace reform from the Community Care Act 1990 to the Care Act 2014
There has recently been renewed interest in non-reductive historical materialist modes for analysing social movements, of which the work of mental health activist and Marxist theorist Peter Sedgwick is a precursor.
A front-line mental health social work perspective on neoliberal workplace reform from the Community Care Act 1990 to the Care Act 2014
Author: Anon
This article recounts my experience as a front-line social worker in adult mentalhealth since I qualified in 1995.
From psycho-politics to mad studies: learning from the legacy of Peter Sedgwick
This article recounts my experience as a front-line social worker in adult mentalhealth since I qualified in 1995.
From psycho-politics to mad studies: learning from the legacy of Peter Sedgwick
Author: Beresford, Peter
We now have a new kind of psycho-politics; a brutal and destructive alliance between neoliberalism and an expanding psychiatric empire. This article will explore how mental health service users/ survivors and other mental health campaigners can connect with the critical analysis and action embodied in the work and values of Peter Sedgwick at a time of crisis and reaction.
Solidarities and tensions in mental health politics: Mad Studies and Psychopolitics
We now have a new kind of psycho-politics; a brutal and destructive alliance between neoliberalism and an expanding psychiatric empire. This article will explore how mental health service users/ survivors and other mental health campaigners can connect with the critical analysis and action embodied in the work and values of Peter Sedgwick at a time of crisis and reaction.
Solidarities and tensions in mental health politics: Mad Studies and Psychopolitics
Authors: Cresswell, Mark; Spandler, Helen
Recent years have seen a resurgence in radical mental health politics and accompanying social movements. This article identifies two tendencies.
Putting the politics back into 'psycho': grass-roots consciousness raising in Liverpool
Recent years have seen a resurgence in radical mental health politics and accompanying social movements. This article identifies two tendencies.
Putting the politics back into 'psycho': grass-roots consciousness raising in Liverpool
Authors: Kinney, Malcolm; Wilson, Tim
This article will reflect on the work currently being undertaken by reVision, an activist group in Liverpool, the town of Sedgwick’s birth.
Psychologists Against Austerity: mobilising psychology for social change
Authors: McGrath, Laura; Walker, Carl; Jones, Christopher
This article will reflect on the work currently being undertaken by reVision, an activist group in Liverpool, the town of Sedgwick’s birth.
Psychologists Against Austerity: mobilising psychology for social change
Authors: McGrath, Laura; Walker, Carl; Jones, Christopher
