Researching public action and development concepts in the context of mental health
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3887420 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Cutler, Robert Hayward (0000-0002-5541-8565, InterAction, 60 Craymill Square, Thames Road, Dartford, Kent, DA1 4SF, UK) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 301-306 |
| Publication date | 2007-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development in Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-4524 • E-ISSN: 1364-9213 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09614520701197267 |
| OpenAlex | W1968533799 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
This report summarises a project of participatory action-research combining concepts from the field of development management with practice in international mental health. The research was conducted in Estonia, Kyrgyzstan, and Romania. The policy-as-process model is central to understandings of development management, but it is unfamiliar to organisations working in mental health, even those working from a community level, bottom–up perspective to influence mental-health policy. At the same time, practice and learning from the field of mental health and radical user-empowerment models have received little attention from development managers. The research reported here found that the policy-as-process model was useful to mental-health activists and that it provided an alternative framework to more traditional, top–down, and prescriptive policy concepts, and made it possible to make sense of the multiple perspectives, value-based conflicts, and power dynamics that characterise understandings and practice in mental health. Among the recommendations is a call for closer links between mental-health activism and development management, and a transfer of knowledge, understanding, and experience between the two disciplines
Citizen journalism · Empowerment · Mental health · Participatory action research · Political science · Psychotherapist · Public relations · Sociology · Community Health and Development · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
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| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |