VALUES AND ETHICS IN MENTAL HEALTH
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Values and Ethics in Mental Health: An Exploration for Practice by Alastair Morgan, Anne Felton, Bill (K.W.M.) Fulford, Jayasree Kalathil and Gemma Stacey
VALUES AND ETHICS IN
MENTAL HEALTH
An Exploration for Practice
ALASTAIR MORGAN
ANNE FELTON
BILL (K.W.M.) FULFORD
JAYASREE KALATHIL
AND
GEMMA STACEY
Alastair Morgan, Anne Felton, Bill (K.W.M.) Fulford, Jayasree Kalathil, and Gemma Stacey 2016
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Felton, Anne.
Values and ethics in mental health : an exploration for practice / Anne Felton and [four others].
pages cm
Summary: This book equips readers with a sound understanding of the value-base of mental health care and provides them with the skills and knowledge to demystify complex values in decision-making in order to reach outcomes which are focused on the needs of service users. Engaging case examples and exercises link theory and practice throughout Provided by publisher.
ISBN 9781137382580 (paperback)
1. Psychiatric ethics. 2. Mental health servicesMoral and ethical aspects.
RC455.2.E8F45 2015
174.29689dc23
2015023903
Contents
List of Boxes, Figures and Tables
BOXES
FIGURES
TABLES
Acknowledgements
The authors and publishers would like to thank the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health and the authors for Exercise 3.1, based on Woodbridge and Fulford, Whose Values? A Workbook for Values-based Practice in Mental Health Care (2004); Cambridge University Press and the authors for Sally Coombs story, based on Recovery in Schizophrenia: A Values Wake-up Call in Fulford et al. Essential Values-based Practice (2012); The New Economics Foundation for Figure 5.1 from Slay and Stephens, Co-production in Mental Health: A Literature Review (2013); Wiley Publishers, Kim Woodbridge-Dodd and the editors for Figure 3.1 from Fulford and Woodridge, Practising Ethically: Values-Based Practice and Ethics Working Together to Support Person-centred and Multidisciplinary Mental Health Care in Stickley and Basset, Learning about Mental Health Practice (2008).
The National Institute for Mental Health England no longer exists but we are grateful to Antony Sheehan as the Chief Executive at the time for his initiative in setting up the NIMHE Values Project Group. We are grateful also to Piers Allott as the Chair of the Group and to all the Group members for their contributions to developing the NIMHE Values Framework (see Box 4.1).
The 3 Keys programme was funded by the UKs Department of Health. We are grateful to all those involved in the project group (as listed in the 3 Keys report) and in the consultation. We are grateful also to members of the Bristol Group working on the pilot implementation project: Yvonne Anderson, Lu Duhig, Bill Fulford, Julie Hankin, Joanna Hicks, Justine Keeble, Martin Hember, Sylvia Matthews, Michael ONeill and Richard Shaw.
We would like to thank the members of the Critical Values Based Practice Network, based in Nottingham, for invaluable discussions and support that have contributed towards the ideas expressed in this book; and also Dr R. Srivatsan (Anveshi Research Centre for Womens Studies, Hyderabad, India) and Dr Shubha Ranganathan (Department of Liberal Arts, IIT, Hyderabad, India) for comments on earlier drafts of .
Notes on Contributors
Alastair Morgan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work at the University of Manchester. He is a critical theorist with a particular interest in the first generation of the Frankfurt School. Alastair has published widely on topics in critical theory, psychiatry and ethical issues in mental health practice. He is the editor of a collection entitled Being Human: Reflections on Mental Distress in Society