Engaging with Transformative Paradigms in Mental Health
Abstract
:1. Introduction
… the field of mental health continues to be over-medicalised and the reductionist biomedical model, with support from psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry, dominates clinical practice, policy, research agendas, medical education and investment in mental health around the world. [1] (pp. 5–6).
a practice profession and an academic discipline that recognises that interconnected historical, socio-economic, cultural, spatial, political and personal factors serve as opportunities and/or barriers to human wellbeing and development [7].
2. Methods
3. Results
the development of critical consciousness through reflecting on structural sources of oppression and/or privilege, on the basis of criteria such as race, class, language, religion, gender, disability, culture and sexual orientation, and developing action strategies towards addressing structural and personal barriers are central to emancipatory practice where the goals are the empowerment and liberation of people [7].
3.1. Neo-Liberalism and Social Work in Mental Health
3.1.1. Focus of the Work
3.1.2. Preparing for Practice
3.2. Critical Social Work in Mental Health
… critical social work practice is primarily concerned with practising in ways which further a society without domination, exploitation and oppression. It will focus both on how structures dominate, but also on how people construct and are constructed by changing social structures and relations [46] (p. 53).
3.2.1. Focus of the Work
3.2.2. Preparing for Practice
3.3. Human Rights and Social Justice
good mental health and wellbeing cannot be defined by the absence of a mental health condition, but must be defined instead by the social, psychosocial, political, economic and physical environment that enables individuals and populations to live a life of dignity, with full enjoyment of their rights and in the equitable pursuit of their potential [60] (p. 1).
3.3.1. Focus of the Work
… the vision of the CRPD is one of engagement with actors and service providers well beyond mental health. The movement, in collaboration with the cross-disability movements worldwide, is using the CRPD to decolonise, de-economise and depsychiatrise … lives by creating excellent opportunities for participation in integrated communities. A vision for inclusion, rather than “good treatment” has emerged [61] (p. 6).
3.3.2. Preparing for Practice
3.4. Post-Structuralism and Social Work in Mental Health
3.4.1. Focus of the Work
3.4.2. Preparing for Practice
4. Discussion
Limitations
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Whitaker, L.; Smith, F.L.; Brasier, C.; Petrakis, M.; Brophy, L. Engaging with Transformative Paradigms in Mental Health. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 9504. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189504
Whitaker L, Smith FL, Brasier C, Petrakis M, Brophy L. Engaging with Transformative Paradigms in Mental Health. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(18):9504. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189504
Chicago/Turabian StyleWhitaker, Louise, Fiona L. Smith, Catherine Brasier, Melissa Petrakis, and Lisa Brophy. 2021. "Engaging with Transformative Paradigms in Mental Health" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 18: 9504. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189504