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| Award/Grant Name:
User Involvement in Mental Health Services: Explorations of Gender, Class and Discourse |
| Award/Grant Holder:
Dr Lydia Lewis |
| Start Date:
01/10/2006 |
End Date:
30/09/2008 |
| Award/Grant Description |
‘User involvement’ – the active participation of service users in shaping or influencing services – has been a recent key policy development within UK mental health services. This study aimed to explore the implications of this for the involvement of women and men service users within mental health services and for mental health service development. The research was conducted in the north-east of Scotland. Methods included analysis of government mental health policy documents, participant observation at meetings of three mental health service user/community groups, and in-depth interviews with service users, providers and practitioners who were members of these groups. Findings showed that policy discourses surrounding user involvement served to homogenise and pathologise the experiences of users of mental health services. Power was shown to operate through these discourses, including that of mental illness, which worked to undermine users’ authority and credibility, and through regulation of discussion within user involvement forums. Gender was found to be a silent, yet omni-present dimension of power in the field setting. The thesis concludes that there are currently structural and discursive constraints to realising the transformatory potential of user involvement policies in the mental health sector. Recommendations for rearticulating these policies and for political practice are provided.
| Keywords:
mental health, gender, discourse |
| Award/Grant Amount |
ESRC Grant Number |
Institution |
Discipline |
Award/Grant Type |
| £66,210.72 |
PTA-037-27-0055 |
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Sociology |
PostDoctoral Fellowship |
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Award/Grant Outputs and Documents
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Number of Documents:
29 |
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User involvement in mental health services : a feminist critical discursive analysis |
Newsletters |
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Lewis, Lydia |
02/10/2008 12:35 |
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It’s people’s whole lives : gender, class and the emotion work of user involvement in mental health services |
Article |
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Lewis, Lydia |
02/10/2008 12:27 |
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Mental health and human rights : sociological perspectives |
Other Publications / Reports |
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Lewis, Lydia |
02/10/2008 11:59 |
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British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group Sociology of Mental Health Study Group Annual Report 2006-2007 |
Other Publications / Reports |
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Lewis, Lydia |
02/10/2008 8:50 |
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Sociology of Mental Health Study Group annual report 2007-8 |
Other Publications / Reports |
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Lewis, Lydia |
02/10/2008 8:46 |
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Re-locating the sociology of mental health and illness |
Journal Issue |
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Rogers, Anne |
30/09/2008 19:19 |
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Mental health and human rights : sociological perspectives |
Journal Issue |
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Lewis, Lydia |
30/09/2008 18:09 |
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Politics of recognition : what can a human rights perspective contribute to understanding users’ experiences of involvement in mental health services? |
Journal Article |
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Lewis, Lydia |
30/09/2008 17:55 |
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Discourse and power in user involvement in mental health services |
Other Output |
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Lewis, Lydia |
30/09/2008 17:41 |
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Politics of recognition : what can a human rights perspective contribute to understanding users’ experiences of involvement in mental health services? |
Seminar / Workshops |
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Lewis, Lydia |
30/09/2008 16:55 |
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