Basset, Thurstine
Voices of Experience: Narratives of Mental Health Survivors
Voices of Experience contains a wide range of stories written by mental health survivors. The narratives illustrate how survivors have developed self-management techniques and strategies for living which, together, offer a guide to anybody struggling with 21st century life.
- Explores a wide variety of mental distress experiences, underpinned by many different explanations and beliefs
- Narrative has been central to the recovery approach and this book presents stories of recovery as well as an appraisal of the concept
- Challenges simplistic explanations of recovery and offers a critical angle to our understanding of what it means to experience mental health problems
- Offers guidance for mental health workers and professionals within the context of current mental health policies in the UK
- Author(s)
- Basset, Thurstine
- Stickley, Theo
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2010
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 212 pages
- Category
- Medicine, Health Care, Mode
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780470970348
- Printed ISBN
- 9780470683620