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Responsibilization and recovery: shifting responsibilities on the journey through mental health care to social engagement
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019-02-22)
This paper examines the trajectory of 32 service users through the mental health care system on the path to recovery. It offers a critical appraisal of the processes whereby mental health and social care services attempt ...
The clinical governance of the soul: 'deep management' and the self-regulating subject in integrated community mental health teams
(Elsevier, 2003-01-01)
Health professionals have often been described as if they were in conflict with the new managerialist spirit in health care. However, because of their distributed and mobile sites of intervention, the work of community ...
'Like a friend going round': reducing the stigma attached to mental healthcare in rural communities
(Blackwell, 2002-07-01)
Traditionally, stigma is seen as something that is the fault of the mental health system, and that involves an individual suffering social disapprobation and reduced life chances as a result of having been given a diagnostic ...
Measuring diversity: Improving access and outcomes in mental health for LGBT people.
(2016-06-01)
This presentation details a two-year collaborative project between De Montfort University Leicester and Leicestershire Partnership Trust to set up an Open Mind project for LGBT people. The project is one of only two of its ...
The role of noise in clinical environments with particular reference to mental health care: A narrative review
(Elsevier, 2015-05-07)
Background
There is a large literature suggesting that noise can be detrimental to health and numerous policy documents have promoted noise abatement in clinical settings.
Objectives
This paper documents the role of ...
Guest editorial: Madness and literature
(Emerald Insight, 2011)
In August 2010, the Institute of Mental Health hosted the 1st International Health Humanities Conference: Madness & Literature, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK. The conference was attended by a range ...
Digital Health Humanities
(Routledge, 2017)
In this chapter we will examine the newly emerging health humanities and the opportunities these afford for explorations of patterns of language and culture, and novel examinations of the context and culture of health and ...
Representations of mental health and arts participation in the national and local British press, 2007-2015
(Sage, 2017-05-18)
We analysed news articles published in national and local British newspapers between 2007 and 2015 to understand (1) how mental health and arts participation were framed and (2) how the relationships between participants ...
Mental Health and the Media: From Illness to Wellbeing
(2019-03-01)
The media are a main source of information about mental health for many people and an ever-growing body of literature is evaluating their coverage of the topic. To help keep track of such research, several comprehensive ...
Mental health and LGBT people: Evidence into action.
(De Montfort University and Leicestershire Partnership Trust, 2015-04-29)
A Joint meeting took place between Leicestershire Partnership Trust and De Montfort University to discuss LGBT mental health. Just six months previously, a gay man and his friend had been set on fire while sitting in a ...
