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Partnership with Service Users in a Recovery Environment. Prof Pat BrackenUniversity of Central Lancashire andWest Cork Mental Health Service . Partnership in a Recovery Environment. 1. Introduction2. The Emerging User Movement 3. Expertise and the Recovery Approach4. Responding Positively to
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1. Thriving or Surviving? RCPsych SW Division
Buckfast Abbey
16th May 2008
2. Partnership with Service Users in a Recovery Environment
Prof Pat Bracken
University of Central Lancashire and
West Cork Mental Health Service
3. Partnership in a Recovery Environment 1. Introduction
2. The Emerging User Movement
3. Expertise and the Recovery Approach
4. Responding Positively to this Challenge
5. Potential Benefits to Our Profession
4. Partnership: Beyond Consultation Consumer orientated society
Statutory Environment
Consultation now accepted and widespread
Mental health service users moving beyond this
Challenge to the psychopathology framework
6. The Icarus Project ‘we shared a vision of being “bipolar” that differs radically from the narrow model put forth by the medical establishment, and wanted to create a space for people like us to articulate the way we understand ourselves, our “disorder”, and our place in the world’
11. Recovery challenges the technological approach to mental health
16. Challenges of Partnership Different understanding of:
-the nature of mental illness
-the nature of expertise
-training and research priorities
-service developments
Importance of ‘critical thinking’
Need for transparency
17. Benefits for Psychiatry From ‘monologue’ to ‘dialogue’
New ‘identity’ emerging for psychiatry
New formulation of ‘responsibility’
