Recovery in Mental Health

Amering, Michaela; Schmolke, Margit

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“…Over time, people recover and learn how to manage or move beyond the stigma. 8 Longitudinal research following people from their first episode of illness over time would be required to examine this issue more comprehensively.…”

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Stigma in Canada: Results from a Rapid Response Survey

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Objective Our paper presents findings from the first population survey of stigma in Canada using a new measure of stigma. Empirical objectives are to provide a descriptive profile of Canadian's expectations that people will devalue and discriminate against someone with depression, and to explore the relation between experiences of being stigmatized in the year prior to the survey among people having been treated for a mental illness with a selected number of sociodemographic and mental health—related variables. Method Data were collected by Statistics Canada using a rapid response format on a representative sample of Canadians ( n = 10 389) during May and June of 2010. Public expectations of stigma and personal experiences of stigma in the subgroup receiving treatment for a mental illness were measured. Results Over one-half of the sample endorsed 1 or more of the devaluation discrimination items, indicating that they believed Canadians would stigmatize someone with depression. The item most frequently endorsed concerned employers not considering an application from someone who has had depression. Over one-third of people who had received treatment in the year prior to the survey reported discrimination in 1 or more life domains. Experiences of discrimination were strongly associated with perceptions that Canadians would devalue someone with depression, younger age (12 to 15 years), and self-reported poor general mental health. Conclusions The Mental Health Experiences Module reflects an important partnership between 2 national organizations that will help Canada fulfill its monitoring obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and provide a legacy to researchers and policy-makers who are interested in monitoring changes in stigma over time.

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“…The conditions that promote well-being and recovery from illness involve a set of common features of health that include hope, empathy and respect for one’s self and others [16]. These common characteristics of well-being emerge from a self-transcendent outlook on life with a sense of participation in the boundless unity of all things or inseparable connectedness with nature and other people [6, 17].…”

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Person-centered Therapeutics

Cloninger¹,

Cloninger²

2011

IJPCM

135

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A clinician’s effectiveness in treatment depends substantially on his or her attitude toward -- and understanding of -- the patient as a person endowed with self-awareness and the will to direct his or her own future. The assessment of personality in the therapeutic encounter is a crucial foundation for forming an effective working alliance with shared goals. Helping a person to reflect on their personality provides a mirror image of their strengths and weaknesses in adapting to life’s many challenges. The Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) provides an effective way to describe personality thoroughly and to predict both the positive and negative aspects of health. Strengths and weaknesses in TCI personality traits allow strong predictions of individual differences of all aspects of well-being. Diverse therapeutic techniques, such as diet, exercise, mood self-regulation, meditation, or acts of kindness, influence health and personality development in ways that are largely indistinguishable from one another or from effective allopathic treatments. Hence the development of well-being appears to be the result of activating a synergistic set of mechanisms of well-being, which are expressed as fuller functioning, plasticity, and virtue in adapting to life’s challenges

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“…Thought to be an uncoordinated site of irrational desires, sensations and physiological processes without any sense of directionality, the body, therefore, had to be controlled so as to not prevent rational agency from occurring (Venn, 2004). Even more recent psychiatric approaches, involving notions of empowerment, recovery and self-management (Antonovsky, 1997;Amering, 2007;Knuf et al, 2007), and valuable due to their focus on patients' competences and healthy potentials, aim to establish freedom of choice, self-determination and self-reliance. These recent approaches follow a metaphysic of agency that focuses on cognitive and autonomous mastery of mental diseases, thereby neglecting the potentials of embodied modes of change as wells as patients who might not sufficiently literate, self-confident or verbally competent to engage in processes of reasonable transformation (Terizoglu and Zaumseil, 2007).…”

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Exploring embodied perspectives of change within a psychiatric context: Some preliminary remarks from a psychiatrist

Peter

2013

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Psychiatric discourses and practices largely focus on the mind when explaining why people change. Agency is thought to emerge out of rational introspection, insight and self-reflexivity, rendering them to key targets of psychotherapeutic interventions. In this essay, an everyday psychiatric situation will be presented in order to illustrate that agency cannot merely be located in the depth of the human mind, but might also arise from a pre-reflective, internalized corporeality. Such a mode of subjectivity is shown to direct ways how to move and position a body, both incorporating a mindful rationality and its embodied foundation. Over the course of this discussion, agency is explained as resulting out of a sort of distributed effect, simultaneously allowing for the analysis of cognitive, embodied and environmental factors that produce change in a symmetrical way. To conclude, initial thoughts will be presented to alter both the clinicians and academic approach towards agency, assigning the embodied self a more substantial role in navigating a person's behaviour.

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Recovery in Mental Health

Cited by 161 publications

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Stigma in Canada: Results from a Rapid Response Survey

Stigma in Canada: Results from a Rapid Response Survey

Person-centered Therapeutics

Exploring embodied perspectives of change within a psychiatric context: Some preliminary remarks from a psychiatrist

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