Uncovering Recovery: The Resistible Rise of Recovery and Resilience

Harper, David A. T.; Speed, Ewen

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“…These aspects closely resemble the aspects and effects of recovery in psychiatry identified by UK psychologist, David Harper and sociologist, Ewen Speed (Harper & Speed, 2014). Similar to the present analysis of Danish policy on involvement, their "uncovering of recovery" elucidates that recovery policy in the UK, US and other Western countries equates with neoliberal identity politics.…”

Section: Technologies Of Governance Of the Weak And Ineffectivesupporting

confidence: 68%

“…Similar to the present analysis of Danish policy on involvement, their "uncovering of recovery" elucidates that recovery policy in the UK, US and other Western countries equates with neoliberal identity politics. Parallel to our analysis of involvement, recovery also relies on individualistic and medicalized notions of responsibility, on a deficit model about the etiology of mental illness and downplays any social context for mental distress beyond interpersonal problems (Harper & Speed, 2014). With regard to individualization, their analysis resembles our discoveries, as they state that: "Neoliberal policies invite people to see certain problems [such as mental distress] as the responsibility of the individual rather than, for example, the state" (Harper & Speed, 2014: p. 45).…”

Section: Technologies Of Governance Of the Weak And Ineffectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The meaning of the negative then depends on a positive, opposite term. Analogous to recovery (Harper & Speed, 2014), involvement does not offer an alternative to the medicalized notion of mental illness, but rather endorses it. This is established by the fact that the campaigns reproduce and even institutionalize the use of the deficit model and an individualizing way of addressing the social inequality of stigmatized psychiatric service users.…”

Section: Technologies Of Governance Of the Weak And Ineffectivementioning

confidence: 99%

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The Politics of Mental Illness and Involvement—<i>A Discourse Analysis of Danish Anti-Stigma and Social Inclusion Campaigns</i>

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Huniche²,

Nielsen³

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The present study is a part of a broader multisited field study on involvement of relatives in Danish psychiatry. The article aims to elucidate which political classifications of normality and mental illness that are displayed in two health political campaigns regarding anti-stigmatization and social inclusion and how such classifications co-constitute the subjectivity of individuals suffering from mental illness and their relatives. Drawing on a discourse theoretical perspective laid out by political theorists Laclau and Mouffe, we analyze how the campaigns bring into effect a weak and ineffective subject of deviance and how it is constituted by a subject of normality characterized by opposing traits. The article takes up the discussion of how the campaigns' articulations of the subjects of normality and deviance are imbedded in a hegemonic discourse of neoliberalism and individualism that asserts involvement as an expanded division of responsibility for the identification, classification and regulation of mentally ill subjects between public and private spheres of the Danish welfare state.

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Section: Technologies Of Governance Of the Weak And Ineffectivementioning

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The Politics of Mental Illness and Involvement—<i>A Discourse Analysis of Danish Anti-Stigma and Social Inclusion Campaigns</i>

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Nielsen³

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“…There is an underpinning assumption "that there is some underlying pathological process" (Busfield, 2011, pp.17e18) explaining these emotional expressions, subsequently contextualised by evidence on social determinants. The power of the state and psychiatric professionals in classifying people as mentally disordered is maintained through national mental health laws that include elements of compulsion, and also in more subtle forms incorporating community care and notions of "recovery" (Anthony, 1993;Harper and Speed, 2012).…”

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Why do people with mental distress have poor social outcomes? Four lessons from the capabilities approach

Brunner

2017

Social Science & Medicine

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a b s t r a c tMacro level data indicate that people experiencing mental distress experience poor health, social and economic outcomes. The sociology of mental health has a series of dominant competing explanations of the mechanisms at personal, social and structural levels that generate these poor outcomes. This article explains the limitations of these approaches and takes up the challenge of Hopper (2007) who in this journal proposed the capabilities approach as a means of normatively reconceptualising the experiences of people with mental distress, with a renewed focus on agency, equality and genuine opportunity. Using an innovative methodology to operationalise the capabilities approach, findings from an in-depth qualitative study exploring the lived experiences of twenty-two people with recent inpatient experience of psychiatric units in Scotland are presented. The paper demonstrates that the capabilities approach can be applied to reconceptualise how unjust social outcomes happen for this social group. It distinguishes how the results of using a capabilities approach to analysis are distinct from established dominant analytical frameworks through four added features: a focus on actual lived outcomes; the role of capabilities as well as functionings; being normative; and incorporating agency. The capabilities approach is found to be an operationalisable framework; the findings have implications for professionals and systems in the specific context of mental health; and the capabilities approach offers a fertile basis for normative studies in wider aspects of health and wellbeing.

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“…In England, a key theme of New Horizons, the Department of Health's (2009, p.3) vision for mental health services over the next ten years, is "personalised care -ensuring that care is based on individuals' needs and wishes, leading to recovery". There is a concern about the extent to which these policy developments have translated into practice and it is possible that, even when the recovery approach is the central policy ethos, traditional deficit focused approaches could persist in practice (Harper and Speed, 2012).…”

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Applying the recovery approach to the interface between mental health and child protection services

Duffy

Davidson

Kavanagh

2015

Child Care in Practice

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There are a range of theoretical approaches which may inform the interface between child protection and adult mental health services. These theoretical perspectives tend to be focused on either child protection or mental health with no agreed integrating framework. The interface continues to be identified, in research, case management reviews and inquiry reports, as complex and problematic. This paper proposes that more positive, integrated approaches to service user engagement, risk assessment and management may lead to better outcomes in working with families experiencing parental mental health problems and child protection concerns. It is proposed that the recovery approach, increasingly used in mental health services, can inform the processes of engagement, assessment and intervention at the mental health and child protection interface. The article provides a critical overview of the recovery approach and compares it with approaches typifying interventions in child protection work to date. Relevant research and inquiries are also examined as a context for how to more effectively respond to cases where there are issues around parental mental health problems and child protection. The article concludes with case material to illustrate the potential application of the recovery approach to the interface between mental health and child protection services.

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Uncovering Recovery: The Resistible Rise of Recovery and Resilience

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The Politics of Mental Illness and Involvement—<i>A Discourse Analysis of Danish Anti-Stigma and Social Inclusion Campaigns</i>

The Politics of Mental Illness and Involvement—<i>A Discourse Analysis of Danish Anti-Stigma and Social Inclusion Campaigns</i>

Why do people with mental distress have poor social outcomes? Four lessons from the capabilities approach

Applying the recovery approach to the interface between mental health and child protection services

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Why do people with mental distress have poor social outcomes? Four lessons from the capabilities approach

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