A Recovery Approach in Mental Health Services: Transformation, Tokenism or Tyranny?

Voices of Experience: Narratives of Mental Health Survivors

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 152-164

  Trivedi, Premila ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities massive over representation of BME communities within mental health services; Black service users personal recovery or liberation; Emperor's new clothes everyone getting excited and hailing the new clothes (the new recovery approach); Encounters, with the recovery approach; Lived experience, another concept lauded by mental health services; Recovery approach in mental health services transformation, tokenism or tyranny; Recovery in reductionist, scientific ways different and separate aspects of the self; Systems and organizations as tangible objects, separate existence from individuals who comprise them; Tale of marginalisation and tokenism; User involvement, self management and user empowerment recovery all fitting the bill

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875247007     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470970362.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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