Towards a social model of madness and distress? Exploring ...

A social model of madness and distress ? Exploring what service users sayPeter Beresford, Mary Nettle and Rebecca PerringNovember 2010 This report explores mental health service users views about social approaches to madness and mental distress and their relationship with the social model of a time when there is growing interest in recovery in mental health policy and practice, service users highlight that a medical model still dominates public and professional understanding. They largely see this as damaging and unhelpful. They see social approaches to mental health issues as much more helpful. At the same time, their views about the social model of disability are complex. There is no the report, a wide range of service users look at: how mental health issues are understood in society; people s personal understandings of mental health issues; the social model of disability in relation to mental health; a possible social model of madness and and stigma following from a medical model of mental illness emerge as major barriers for mental health service users.

3. The social model of disability in relation to mental health. 4. Their personal understandings of madness and distress within a social model of disability. A number of key fi ndings emerge from the project. These include that: † There is signifi cant agreement that the existing dominant medicalised individual model of mental illness

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