Empowerment, Lifelong Learning and Recovery in Mental Health, 2012 Towards a New Paradigm

An exploration of how empowerment, lifelong learning and social inclusion are closely connected to the concept of recovery from mental illness, showing how mental health services in general need to restructure to enable people with the lived experience of mental illness to lead a meaningful life with and beyond the illness.

List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; P.Ryan , S.Ramon & T.Greacen PART I: RECOVERY Recovery, Lifelong Learning, Empowerment & Social Inclusion: Is A New Paradigm Emerging?; H.Glover TREE: Towards Recovery, Empowerment and Experiential Expertise of Users of Psychiatric Services; W.Boevink Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP); B.Evans & K.Sault The Role of Mental Health Service Users in Recovery from Professional Stigma; R.W.Surber Developing Successful Recovery-Oriented Mental Health Services; J.Boardman & G.Shepherd PART II: SOCIAL INCLUSION AND EMPLOYMENT Designing Policies to Foster the Community Inclusion of People in Recovery; L.Davidson , E.Flanagan , & T.Styron Employment and Social Inclusion: Implementing the Model and Facing the Reality; J.Schneider Overcoming Barriers to Empowerment; T.Greacen & E.Jouet PART III: EMPOWERMENT AND LIFELONG LEARNING Empowerment: Key Concepts and Evidence Base; A.Baumann, P.Ryan & C.Griffiths Evaluating Service User Involvement in Mental Health Services; D.C.Keay Lifelong Learning, Mental Health and Higher Education: A UK Focus; J.Anderson & J.Holmshaw Lifelong Learning and Wellbeing: The Health Benefits of Lifelong Learning for People With Mental Illness; J.Ogunleye , C.Griffiths , I.Dawson & K.Nyberg Stakeholders' Lifelong Learning and Organisational Change Experiences in the Context of the EMILIA Project; M.Kaunonen & S.Ramon 'Getting on with Your Life': A User's Experience of Participating in the EMILIA Project; T.K.Nilsen Service Users' Experiences of Lifelong Learning; I.Nieminen & T.K.Nilsen Mental Health Service Users as Trainers in the Context of the EMILIA Project; T.Stenfors-Hayes & P.Ryan Index

JILL ANDERSON Senior Project Development Officer for the Mental Health in Higher Education project ww.mhhe.heacademy.ac.uk and is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Cumbria, UK ANJA ESTHER BAUMANN Technical Officer for Mental Health at the WHO Regional Office for Europe WILMA BOEVINK Social scientist and an active member of the Dutch user movement in psychiatry. She is professor of Recovery at Hanze University Groningen, the Netherlands JED BOARDMAN Chair of the General and Community Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in London, UK DAVID CREPAZ-KEAY User and Advisor for the Mental Health Foundation in London, UK LARRY DAVIDSON Professor of Psychology at the University of Yale, Department of Psychiatry, USA IAN DAWSON Researcher and work package leader for dissemination in the EMILIA project BARBARA EVANS Trained as a social worker and currently works for Hampshire County Council (UK) as a Workforce Development Advisor for Mental Health, UK ELIZABETH FLANAGAN Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, USA HELEN GLOVER Social worker in the UK CHRIS GRIFFITHS has worked on two Europe wide European Union funded mental health projects JANET HOLMSHAW Senior Lecturer in mental health at Middlesex University, UK EMMANUELLE JOUET Specialist in educational sciences and researcher for the Emilia project at the Maison Blanche Research Unit in Paris, France MARJA KAUNONEN Adjunct Professor at the University of Tampere, Finland, Department of Nursing Science in the EMILIA Project IRJA NIEMINEN has worked as a researcher in the EMILIA project. Currently she is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Nursing Science, University of Tampere, Finland TORILL KLEVAN NILSEN Member of Mental Health, a user organization in Norway KLAUS NYBORG JAMES OGUNLEYE serves on the European Commission's Panel of Experts projects scrutineer/reviewer on Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013 KATE SAULT is WRAP Co-ordinator, a role she dev