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Basset, Thurstine

Voices of Experience: Narratives of Mental Health Survivors

Basset, Thurstine - Voices of Experience: Narratives of Mental Health Survivors, ebook

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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

Keywords: stories; contains; experience; survivors; health; voices; variety; wide; mental; way; problems; living; techniques; selfmanagement; many; strategies; ways; narratives; importance; peer; critical; explanations

Author(s)
 
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

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