Overview
- First book to offer a comprehensive agenda to achieve social inclusion for people with mental health problems
Written by a former director of Mind, the British mental health charity
Combines new theoretical insights with practical measures to achieve change
Written in an engaging style accessible to a lay audience (e.g. mental health service users) as well as to students, professionals and policymakers
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book proposes theoretical models and practical strategies for tackling the widespread social exclusion faced by people diagnosed mentally ill. Based primarily on research in the US and UK but with reference to other international examples, it analyses evidence of discrimination and the effectiveness of different remedies: disability discrimination law, work to re-frame media and cultural images, grassroots inclusion programmes, challenges to the 'nimby' factor. It places the growing user/survivor and disability movements as central to achieving any radical change.
About the author
LIZ SAYCE is Director of Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Health Action Zone. She was formerly Policy Director for Mind (The National Association for Mental Health in the UK) and has written extensively on mental health issues. In the period August 1995-August 1996, she was based at the Bazelon Centre for Mental Health Law, Washington, on a Harkness Fellowship looking into anti-discrimination work in the US.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Psychiatric Patient to Citizen
Book Subtitle: Overcoming Discrimination and Social Exclusion
Authors: Liz Sayce
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27833-6
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Liz Sayce 2000
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 292
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Social Policy