- Title
- Participation and inclusion: mental health service users' lived experience: an international study
- Creator
- McKay, Elizabeth; Mahon, Deirdre; Donellan, Grainne; Haracz, Kirsti; Sheldon, Sarah; Ryan, Susan
- Relation
- Participation in Health and Welfare Services. Professional Concepts and Lived Experience p. 209-225
- Relation
- Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
- Relation
- https://www.crcpress.com/Participation-in-Health-and-Welfare-Services-Professional-Concepts-and/Eide-Josephsson-Vik/p/book/9781138644854
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- 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) 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. This three-centre international study examined, compared and contrasted the experiences of mental health service users with enduring problems in regional areas of Ireland, Canada and Australia, focusing on the factors that influenced their experience of participation and social inclusion in their respective communities. This was a two-phase, mixed-methodology study utilising the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as a framework for enquiry for practice and research. In the first phase, a questionnaire was developed from the ICF components of Activities and Participation to examine enduring mental health users' experiences. The second, qualitative, phase, reported here, captured participants' experiences through interviews about these issues.
- Description
- 1
- Subject
- participation; barriers; social inclusion; mental health; Australia
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1391957
- Identifier
- uon:33309
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781138644854
- Language
- eng
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