From here to Recovery: One Service User's Journey through a Mental Health Crisis: Some Reflections on Experience, Policy and Practice

Journal of Social Work Practice

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 455-470

  Gregory, Marilyn J ^a   Thompson, Alexandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

auto ethnography; mental health; recovery; service user

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889090809     PISSN: 02650533     EISSN: 14653885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2013.802678     Document Type: Article

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