Training in Mental Health Recovery and Social Justice in the Public Sector

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (8) ◽  
pp. 1108-1135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika R. Carr ◽  
Ranjit Bhagwat ◽  
Rebecca Miller ◽  
Allison N. Ponce
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Training Model ◽  
Mental Health Recovery ◽  
Psychology Training ◽  
Training Experience ◽  
The Public ◽  
Clinical Consultation ◽  
Successes And Challenges ◽  
Future Program

Individuals who experience serious mental illness (SMI) frequently encounter stigma and disenfranchisement. Attention to this concern necessitates a social justice focus within the mental health field. This article explores the significance and critical foundations of a psychology training experience grounded in a social justice and recovery-oriented perspective to answer the call for a focus on social justice and empowerment for individuals with SMI in mental health recovery. A specific training program is highlighted as an example of how social justice and recovery-oriented psychology training can be conducted. It includes theoretical foundations, trainee and supervision factors, a training model, and a description of didactic, clinical, consultation, interdisciplinary, and recovery-initiative training experiences. Last, specific successes and challenges of this type of training experience, as well as recommendations for future program development, are shared.

Desire, sanity and the middlebrow aesthetic: The case of Triveni’s Sharapanjara

2019 ◽  
pp. 002198941987848
Author(s):  
Gayathri Prabhu
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Mental Health Recovery ◽  
Double Vision ◽  
The Public ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Subject

Two landmark novels appeared in the same year (1965) in Kannada literature — U. R. Ananthamurthy’s Samskara and Triveni’s last novel, Sharapanjara. While the former got enshrined into the Indian modernist canon (the Navya movement), Triveni’s work has stayed mostly in the realms of popular literature for women. This article seeks to make a case to read Sharapanjara in light of recent scholarship on popular modernism and on the middlebrow novel, especially the feminine middlebrow. Depicting the chilling unspooling of a woman’s mental health, recovery and relapse, within the constraints and duplicities of domestic space, this novel makes several bold thematic and stylistic forays. The article analyses Sharapanjara as a text whose double vision about desire and insanity, both in its treatment of the subject as well as its nuanced narrative structure, elicits new articulations of extreme alienation and discrimination at the very cusp where the domestic and the public collapse into each other.

A Call for Enhanced Training and Action on the Intersections of Mental Health, Decent Work, and Career in Counselling and Psychotherapy

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-50
Author(s):  
Rebecca E. Hudson Breen ◽  
Breanna Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Psychology Training ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Ethical Practice ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Psychology Training Programs ◽  
Counselling Psychology

Although career is identified as a key element of counselling and counselling psychology, currently many students and professionals within these disciplines do not identify career as integral to their practice. This neglect persists despite ongoing calls for increased awareness of career development issues from scholars in the field. The authors argue that the integration of the psychology of work and career is essential to ethical practice in counselling and counselling psychology as well as a necessary area of competency in acting on fostering social justice and decent work as a human right. Recommendations for integrating career within counsellor education and counselling psychology training programs are discussed.

Wanted a New Conceptual Framework for Doing Psychology in India

2019 ◽  
pp. 219-245
Author(s):  
U. Vindhya
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Critical Psychology ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
The Public ◽  
Perspective Drawing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Psychology Perspective

Addressing the social inequalities and their influences on behaviour and striving for work towards a change in institutions and systems that perpetuate injustice and inequities implies a commitment to a social justice agenda. It is this commitment and the research and practice it seeks to generate that can be termed as the public psychology perspective. It pursues the quest for social change by an ethic that emphasizes distributive justice and human rights and advocates for policies that maximize the accessibility of resources to the disenfranchised and disempowered sections of society in particular. This chapter focusses on the tenets of the public psychology perspective, drawing on the tradition of critical psychology and covers the efforts currently underway exemplified by this perspective, drawn from the fields of mental health and education.

scholarly journals Towards a Social Justice Framework of Mental Health Recovery

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Morrow ◽  
Julia Weisser
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Mental Distress ◽  
Mental Health Recovery ◽  
The Political ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Current Context

In this paper we set out the context in which experiences of mental distress occur with an emphasis on the contributions of social and structural factors and then make a case for the use of intersectionality as an analytic and methodological framework for understanding these factors. We then turn to the political urgency for taking up the concept of recovery and argue for the importance of research and practice that addresses professional domination of the field, and that promotes ongoing engagement and dialogue about recovery as both a personal and social experience. To this end, we describe a unique project that sought to deepen our understanding of how recovery is being thought about and applied in the current context of mental health care in Vancouver, BC, with a specific focus on how, and whether, people are taking up and addressing dimensions of power that we see as critical to the operationalization of recovery within a social justice framework. Emerging from our research and discussion is a set of critical questions about whether or not the political moment in Canada with respect to re-invigorating recovery should be embraced, versus a rejection of the concept of recovery as too limiting in its scope and too vulnerable to professional co-optation. 

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