Consumer-Run Mental Health: Framework for Recovery

✍ Scribed by Louis D. Brown (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 226
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Consumer-run organizations and other types of mental health self-help are becoming increasingly popular in the public mental health system. These initiatives now outnumber traditional mental health organizations in the US (Goldstrom et al., 2006). This growth is due in large part to their low cost, devoted supporters, burgeoning evidence base, and increased acceptance by mental health professionals. International interest in these initiatives is also growing as self-help is flourishing in industrialized countries worldwide. I recently edited a special issue on mental health self-help for the American Journal of Community Psychology and we received submissions from five continents, with exciting work coming out of China, Australia, and Europe. The proposed book develops a rich theoretical model called the Role Framework, which explains how people engage in and benefit from mental health consumer-run organizations (CROs).

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Using Existing Theory to Build a Conceptual Framework of Consumer-Run Organizations....Pages 15-34
Refining the Preliminary Framework to Create the Role Framework....Pages 35-47
Constructing Journalistic Life History Narratives to Explore the Role Framework....Pages 49-61
Life History Narratives from the P.S. Club....Pages 63-117
Using Narratives to Understand How People Benefit from CROs....Pages 119-135
How Organizations Influence Role Development....Pages 137-150
Role Development and Recovery....Pages 151-166
Conclusion....Pages 167-179
Back Matter....Pages 181-217

✦ Subjects

Community and Environmental Psychology; Social Work; Sociology, general