Mental health service users and disability : implications for future strategies
By: BERESFORD, Peter
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Contributor(s): HARRISON, Chris | WILSON, Anne.
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ArticlePublisher: 2002Subject(s): Deficiente | Mental Health Service Users | Survivors | Change | RightsPolicy & Politics 30, 3, p. 387-396Abstract: Mental health service users/survivors are subjetct to both mental health and disability policies, yet there appears to be an ambiguity in the approach of disability policiy and disability politics tto them mental health service uwers/survivors with 'dangerousness' and focusing on them as a threat to 'public safety'. Mental health ervice users'/survivors' organisations, which have so far tended to focus their activities on mental health policy and partnership approaches to making change, are now beginning to retaining their own distinct and independent identity. This has important implications for disability studies, policy and politics, and highliths the importance of addressing issues relating to mental health service users/survivors fully and equally
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Mental health service users/survivors are subjetct to both mental health and disability policies, yet there appears to be an ambiguity in the approach of disability policiy and disability politics tto them mental health service uwers/survivors with 'dangerousness' and focusing on them as a threat to 'public safety'. Mental health ervice users'/survivors' organisations, which have so far tended to focus their activities on mental health policy and partnership approaches to making change, are now beginning to retaining their own distinct and independent identity. This has important implications for disability studies, policy and politics, and highliths the importance of addressing issues relating to mental health service users/survivors fully and equally
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