The Medicalisation of Mental Health Practice ‐ Lessons from the Care of Patients who Deliberately Self‐Harm

McElroy, Alastair

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“…35 Given that drug intervention has proved unsuccessful in preventing repetition of selfharming behaviour (largely determined by life experiences rather than by somatic foundation), there is a particular need for evaluation of psycho-social and individual interventions and a review of what works in managing and preventing self-harm. 36 There are strong reasons for supposing that GIR might work in such a context. Characterised by emotional and interpersonal disturbances (usually associated with adverse childhood or family experiences and/or untreated depression), self-harm is an externalised way of representing diffuse intrinsic distress.…”

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'Reading for Life': Prison Reading Groups in Practice and Theory

Billington¹

2011

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This article considers the theoretical and practice-based evidence for the therapeutic effects of the shared reading of literature (poetry, fiction, plays, short stories) in prison communities. Taking as its starting point recent research and practice relating to the successful intervention ('Get into Reading') pioneered by UK charity The Reader Organisation, the article situates the components of this model in the context of established theories of reader response, as well as new research on reading and the brain. Yet its focus is always shared reading in practice and, through specific examples and testimony from prisoners and those who read with them (including health professionals), the article demonstrates the vital relation of this intervention to current recommendations in respect of the mental health needs of prisoners. It also offers a possible model for future interdisciplinary research in this field.

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Section: Prison Reading-group Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

'Reading for Life': Prison Reading Groups in Practice and Theory

Billington¹

2011

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The Medicalisation of Mental Health Practice ‐ Lessons from the Care of Patients who Deliberately Self‐Harm

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'Reading for Life': Prison Reading Groups in Practice and Theory

'Reading for Life': Prison Reading Groups in Practice and Theory

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