Sharing Experience Learned Firsthand (SELF): Self-disclosure of lived experience in mental health services and supports.

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casadi “Khaki” Marino ◽  
Beckie Child ◽  
Vanessa Campbell Krasinski
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Services And Supports

scholarly journals Self-Disclosure and Non-Communication: Stigma Management in Third-Sector Transitional Employment

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (22) ◽  
pp. 11840
Author(s):  
Miira Niska ◽  
Melisa Stevanovic ◽  
Elina Weiste ◽  
Tommi Ostrovskij ◽  
Taina Valkeapää ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Information Control ◽  
Stigma Management ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Transitional Employment

People who are recovering from a mental illness often have difficulties finding and maintaining employment. One of the main reasons for these difficulties is the negative label, or stigma, attached to mental illnesses. People who possess stigmatizing characteristics may use compensatory stigma management strategies to reduce discrimination. Due to mental illnesses’ invisible characteristics, information control is an important stigma management strategy. People can often choose whether they disclose or non-communicate their illness. Nevertheless, it might be difficult to decide when and to whom to disclose or non-communicate the stigma. Since stigma management is a dilemmatic process, workers in mental health services play an important role in informing their clients of when it is best to disclose or non-communicate their illness. In this article, we adopt the perspective of discursive social psychology to investigate how workers of one mental health service programme evaluate and construct self-disclosure and non-communication as stigma management strategies. We demonstrate how these workers recommend non-communication and formulate strict stipulations for self-disclosure. At the same time, they differentiate non-communication from lying or providing false information. The study contributes to an improved understanding of stigma management in contemporary mental health services.

scholarly journals Promoting meaningful recovery with digital mental health care

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Carpenter-Song
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Barriers To Access ◽  
Integration Of Technology ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract There is growing interest in digital mental health as well as accumulating evidence of the potential for technology-based tools to augment traditional mental health services and to potentially overcome barriers to access and use of mental health services. Our research group has examined how people with mental illnesses think about and make use of technology in their everyday lives as a means to provide insight into the emerging paradigm of digital mental health. This research has been guided by anthropological approaches that emphasise lived experience and underscore the complexity of psychiatric recovery. In this commentary I describe how an anthropological approach has motivated us to ask how digital technology can be leveraged to promote meaningful recovery for people with mental illnesses and to develop a new approach to the integration of technology-based tools for people with mental illnesses.

scholarly journals Lived Experience, Research Leadership, and the Transformation of Mental Health Services: Building a Researcher Pipeline

2021 ◽  
pp. appi.ps.2020004
Author(s):  
Nev Jones ◽  
Kendall Atterbury ◽  
Louise Byrne ◽  
Michelle Carras ◽  
Marie Brown ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Research Leadership
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