Participation and inclusion: mental health service users' lived experience – an international study.

McKay, Elizabeth Anne; Mahon, Deirdre; Donellan, Gainne; Haracz, Kirsti; Sheldon, Sarah; Ryan, Susan

Abstract

In the UK, progress has been made in terms of awareness of the barriers to participation and social inclusion that is experienced by people with severe and enduring mental health problems (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, 2004). Yet it is unclear whether mental health service users in other countries report similar or differing experiences of social inclusion and/or exclusion. Rudman et al. (2008: p. 142) argued that an international perspective was needed to ‘add new ideas to existing theories, raise awareness of the assumptions underpinning existing concepts, and help guard against assumptions of universality’. If there were any, the particular in each country needed to be emphasised

Citation

McKay, E. A., Mahon, D., Donellan, G., Haracz, K., Sheldon, S., & Ryan, S. (2017). Participation and inclusion: mental health service users' lived experience – an international study. In A. H. Eide, S. Josephsson, & K. Vik (Eds.), Participation in health and welfare services: professional concepts and lived experienceLondon: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

• Acceptance Date: Sep 1, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Feb 1, 2017
• Publication Date: Mar 6, 2017
• Deposit Date: Feb 23, 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Book Title: Participation in health and welfare services: professional concepts and lived experience
• Chapter Number: 17
• ISBN: 9781138644854
• Keywords: Mental Health Services, Lived Experience, Welfare,
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1051676