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  • 1 - Introduction to mental health and mental illness: Human connectedness and the collaborative consumer narrative

  • Edited by Nicholas Procter, University of South Australia, Rhonda L. Wilson, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Helen P. Hamer, Denise McGarry, University of Tasmania, Mark Loughhead, University of South Australia
  • Book:
    Mental Health
    Published online:
    07 April 2022
    Print publication:
    07 April 2022, pp 1-25

  • Summary

    This chapter reflects a coming together of key issues and themes embedded in everyday work with consumers and carers. In recent times, the definition of a carer has expanded to include immediate family and friends, and may also include extended family members such as grandparents and cousins. In transcultural and other contexts, it is important to use humanistic language in line with a recovery approach; for example, the terms ‘support person/people’ and ‘support networks’ may be preferable to the term ‘carer’ in mental health practice and mental health nursing. This approach provides a foundation for human connectedness, and sets the consumer narrative as central to mental health practice and mental health nursing, specifically.The chapter introduces students to a narrative-based understanding of mental health and trauma-informed mental health care, as well as key concepts in mental health and mental illness. It discusses mental health nursing as a collaborative, specialised field of nursing.

  • 1 - Introduction to mental health and mental illness: Human connectedness and the collaborative consumer narrative

    • By
  • Edited by Nicholas Procter, University of South Australia, Rhonda L. Wilson, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Helen P. Hamer, Denise McGarry, University of Tasmania, Mark Loughhead, University of South Australia
  • Book:
    Mental Health
    Published online:
    07 April 2022
    Print publication:
    07 April 2022, pp 1-25

  • Summary

    This chapter reflects a coming together of key issues and themes embedded in everyday work with consumers and carers. In recent times, the definition of a carer has expanded to include immediate family and friends, and may also include extended family members such as grandparents and cousins. In transcultural and other contexts, it is important to use humanistic language in line with a recovery approach; for example, the terms ‘support person/people’ and ‘support networks’ may be preferable to the term ‘carer’ in mental health practice and mental health nursing. This approach provides a foundation for human connectedness, and sets the consumer narrative as central to mental health practice and mental health nursing, specifically.The chapter introduces students to a narrative-based understanding of mental health and trauma-informed mental health care, as well as key concepts in mental health and mental illness. It discusses mental health nursing as a collaborative, specialised field of nursing.

  • 29 - Labeling and Stigma

  • from Part III - Mental Health Systems and Policy
  • Edited by Teresa L. Scheid, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Tony N. Brown, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
  • Book:
    A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health
    Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    16 November 2009, pp 571-588

  • Summary

    The mental health consumer/survivor movement is the human rights movement devoted to securing the rights and just treatment of persons identified as mentally ill. This chapter reviews trends in the struggles of activists to achieve the rights. After describing early conditions and moments in the movement, it examines the modern mental health consumer/survivor movement, focusing on the expatients and other advocates who fueled the modern movement, the reformist turn from antipsychiatry to consumerism, forces that bolstered or challenged the movement, subsequent challenges and more recent developments. In a political climate in which National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) had acquired considerable influence, Community Support Program (CSP) was losing power and had become less favorably positioned to promote the consumer/ survivor cause. National and state organizations advance their consumer/ survivor agendas, and every state has a mandated consumer office through which consumers and survivors directly engage with policy makers.