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Human welfare
Published in S. Alexander Haslam, Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 and Society, 2020
Scott and Wilson’s paper also depicts the ‘feckless wastrels’ of mental health programmes – they suggest these people have deficit identities and do not have the capacity to choose nor the self-discipline to comply. They are: mental health consumers who are unwilling or unable to commit to maintaining the healthy lifestyle … can be easily coded as passive, irresponsible, or otherwise lacking in moral qualities.(Scott and Wilson, 2011: 10)
Regulating restrictive practices
Published in Bernadette McSherry, Yvette Maker, Restrictive Practices in Health Care and Disability Settings, 2020
Bernadette McSherry, Yvette Maker
This highlights arguably the most significant gap in existing research, namely, the lack of consumer-led and consumer-endorsed initiatives that aim to eliminate restrictive practices. Cath Roper, Mary O’Hagan, Hamilton Kennedy and Helena Roennfeldt have provided examples of such initiatives in Chapter 2. It is timely now to evaluate and expand on these initiatives and to consider how they may be supported by regulation (see also Brophy, Fletcher and Hamilton in Chapter 12). This should also present an opportunity to address the superficial extent to which regulation and practice recognises the relevance of a range of dimensions of difference – including, but not limited to, gender, gender identity, sexuality, class, ‘race’, ethnicity, religion and disability status – in the treatment, experiences, requirements and views of service users (discussed by Roper et al. in Chapter 2; Bartlett and Sampson in Chapter 3 and Maker in Chapter 5). While the emphasis of many chapters in this volume has been on the experiences of mental health consumers and their role in working towards reducing and eliminating restraint, an equally strong argument can be made for the greater involvement of users of disability and aged care services in research and in the development, implementation and monitoring of reform.
Advocacy
Published in Michael Farrell, Psychosis Under Discussion, 2017
Oaks (2016) refers to a range of expressions. One cluster of phrases highlights that the person has used mental health services. Examples are ‘mental health consumer’, ‘user of mental health services’ and ‘mental health client’. It may need further clarification if anyone was interested in why the individual used mental health services. Was it because of psychosis? Depression? Anxiety? The emphasis on ‘use’ avoids such direct references. A ‘mental health peer’ perhaps means that the person is a peer to others whether those others have mental disorders or not. If so, it suggests a dislike of labelling.
Efficacy of contact intervention videos on college students’ intentions toward mental health help-seeking
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2022
Eryn Kruger, Steven C. Pitts, Danielle Denenny, Joseph S. DeLuca, Jason Schiffman
Prior to conducting main analyses, significant baseline differences in participant characteristics were tested among the video conditions. As observed in Table 1, no significant differences were found across conditions in terms of age, years in college, and intentions per ANOVA, or in status as mental health consumer, clinical distress status, gender, or race per chi-square analyses. This result was expected given random assignment to condition. All participants in T1 (N = 163) had complete T1 data, and 159 in T2 (98%) had complete T2 data. Visual inspection of means and proportions across T1 variables for complete versus non-complete data suggest no differences across T1 variables. Given the requirements of valid data at all timepoints in a mixed design ANOVA, listwise deletion was used for subsequent analyses.
Presenting your lived experience of mental health issues to health professional students: Findings from rural and regional Australia
Published in Contemporary Nurse, 2022
Denise McGarry, Judith Anderson, Kathryn Sweeger
The negative experiences of tokenism, voyeurism and unclear expectations did not emerge as themes from the data as in the earlier study by Meehan and Glover (2007). Rather, these presenters felt supported and that their stories were respected. The different audience – health professionals rather than undergraduate students - may partially explain this finding of Meehan and Glover (2007). In this situation, lecturers were available to support student learning and direct the discussion towards strategies for future care, whilst a support group worker was simultaneously available to ensure that mental health consumers and their carers felt supported during the entire experience. Providing this level of support was perceived to be important to avoid tokenism and voyeurism whilst ensuring expectations were met.
‘People Just Need to Try It to Be Converted!’: A Picture of Consumer Mental Health Research in Australia and New Zealand
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2020
Brett Scholz, Brenda Happell, Sarah Gordon, Terri Warner, Cath Roper, Pete Ellis, Shifra Waks, Chris Platania-Phung
The terminology used in this paper is not necessarily internationally applicable and to avoid confusion the authors commence this paper with explanations of the terms used. We have adopted the language mental health consumer as used in Australian Mental Health Policy (Australian Government Department of Health, 2016). Mental Health Consumer refers to people with lived experience of mental distress and/or the use of mental health services. Consumer research is research undertaken by consumers, based on their lived experience and the expertise developed as a result of this. Consumer participants contribute to mental health research based on their experience and expertise and consumer researchers utilise their lived experience and expertise directly in conceptualising, conducting, analysing research and disseminating research outcomes. Consumer academics refer to consumers employed in designated positions in higher education, usually in teaching and research positions. The term non-consumer researchers refer to people undertaking research from the perspective of their qualifications and expertise in science or the health professions.