Mental Health Service User Experience of Positive Psychotherapy

Service user involvement, authority and the ‘expert-by-experience’ in mental health

User/consumer involvement in mental health service delivery.

The involvement of mental health service users in service delivery is a new and growing phenomenon. Such involvement is complex, given the history of paternalism in the mental health system, the power differential between service providers and service users, and the very differing views each group holds on multiple issues. Unless such differences are addressed, there can be no meaningful involv...

Service user perspectives on coercion and restraint in mental health

Coercion remains a central aspect of many people's mental healthcare. It can include the use of legislation to restrict freedoms, the use of physical restraint, the restriction of freedom of movement and/or association, and the forced or covert administration of medication. There is good evidence that the use of such measures can traumatise service users. This article reports the findings of a ...

From Little Acorns – The mental health service user movement

In the summer of 1985, service user activists from the United Kingdom met activists from other countries at the Mind/World Federation of Mental Health Congress in Brighton, a coming together that underlined the potential for collective campaigning in this country. That autumn’s Annual Mind Conference in Kensington Town Hall was the first national mental health event at which service users made ...

A new mental health service: high quality and user-led.

mental health services this is a time of For mental health services this is a time of change. We have seen the publication of change. We have seen the publication of, a blueprint for mental health care throughout England. for mental health care throughout England. By the time this paper appears, the By the time this paper appears, the National Plan will have been published ± National Plan will ...