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PROMOTION OF MENTAL HEALTH
VOLUME 7, 2000

Promotion of Mental Health Volume 7, 2000

Edited by
MICHAEL C. MURRAY
COLIN A. REED
The Clifford Beers Foundation

First published 2001 by Ashgate Publishing

Reissued 2018 by Routledge
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Copyright Michael C. Murray and Colin A. Reed 2001

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A Library of Congress record exists under LC control number: 92010714

ISBN 13: 978-1-138-72708-3 (hbk)
ISBN 13: 978-1-315-19101-0 (ebk)

Contents

Margaret M. Barry, Elaine ODoherty and Ann Doherty

Dr. D. R. Billington

Mike Birch

Mike Birch

Adrian Booth

Adrian Booth and Angela Burford

Odd Steffen Dalgard

Dr. Kedar Nath Dwivedi

Lynne Friedli

Alessandro Grispini and Renato Piccione

Alessandro Grispini, Renato Piccione and Renato Frisanco

Sandy Herron and Rebecca Mortimer

Dr. Sandy Herron

Ken Keddie

Kathryn Kinmond

Gerjo Kok

Rebecca J. Lancaster and Elizabeth Burtney

Ros Lobo and Chris Gilleard

Glenn Macdonald

Natasha Mauthner, Michael Killoran-Ross and Jane Brown

Claire Hayes, Christine Murphy and the Odin Group

Michael C. Murray

Brit Oppedal

Michael Killoran-Ross

Kathleen Stacey

Graeme Walsh

Sandra L. Wheatley and T. S. Brugha

Note: a selection of the above papers have been included in a conference issue of The International Journal of Mental Health Promotion.

Barry, Margaret M. National University of Ireland, Galway

Billington, D.R. Health Organization, Geneva

Birch, Mike. Falmouth College of Art

Booth, Adrian. South Australian Health Commission

Brown, Jane. University of Glasgow

Brugha, T.S. University of Leicester

Burford, Angela. South Australian Health Commission

Burtney, Elizabeth. Health Education Board for Scotland

Dalgard, Odd Steffen. National Institute for Public Health, Oslo

Doherty, Ann. National University of Ireland, Galway

Dwivedi, Kedar Nath. Child and Family Consultation Service, Northampton

Friedli, Lynne. Health Education Board, London

Frisanco, Renato. Department of Mental Health (DSM), Rome E

Gilleard, Chris. MSW Mental Health Promotion Alliance, London

Grispini, Alessandro. Department of Mental Health (DSM), Rome E

Hayes, Claire. National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Herron, Sandy. University of Nottingham

Keddie, Ken. Arbroath, Scotland

Killoran-Ross, Michael. Ayrshire and Arran Health Board

Kinmond, Kathryn. University of Central Enngland

Kok, Gerjo. University of Maastricht

Lancaster, Rebecca J. Institute of Occupational Medicine

Lobo, Ros. MSW Mental Health Promotion Alliance, London

Macdonald, Glenn. University of Central England

Mauthner, Natasha. University of Edinburgh

Mortimer, Rebecca. University of Nottingham

Murphy, Christine. University of Liverpool

Murray, Michael C. The Clifford Beers Foundation

ODoherty, Elaine. Homefirst Community Trust, Ballymena

Oppedal, Brit. National Institute for Public Health, Oslo

Piccione, Renato. Department of Mental Health (DSM), Rome E

Stacey, Kathleen. Flinders University, Australia

Walsh, Graeme. Lanarkshire Health Board

Wheatley, Sandra L. University of Leicester

My first venture into mental health, or perhaps at that time more appropriate to say mental illness, was when I was invited to manage a psychiatric hospital. I hasten to add the invitation came not on the basis of my knowledge of mental health but because, like many other similar institutions, the hospital was ready for an enquiry and I had experience of working in a hostile industrial relations climate.

Even allowing for the fact that I knew very little about mental health it was patently clear that the service we provided was inhumane, expensive and ineffective. Unfortunately the patients had little say in the matter.

Quickly realising there must be a more appropriate way to provide care I sought advice and counsel from colleagues in a series of seminars and at conferences where I learnt from others and on occasions perhaps others learned from me. This sharing of knowledge was of mutual benefit and for those working within a climate of scarce resources helped overcome the wasteful practice of trying to re-invent the wheel.

When the opportunity arose we tried to put some of the advice received into practice and commissioned a mental health promotion unit. Although we only had a candle to light the way and even as we often stumbled in the dark, with help and encouragement from others a clearer path began to emerge.

One of the fruits of our collaboration with others in a similar position was the European Conference on the Promotion of Mental Health which over the years has provided a vehicle for the exchange of knowledge and experiences and for the establishment of networks for practitioners from across national and cultural barriers. This is the seventh volume in the Promotion of Mental Health series which will, I hope, further disseminate the lessons we have learned and the experiences we shared at the European Conferences.

In Volume Seven we have endeavoured to build upon the framework developed by Dr Dennis Trent; the one person who can rightly take credit for the reporting of the Conference proceedings throughout the 1990s. We have sought to bring together the ideas and practices of a diverse group of people bound together with the common aim of securing the rightful place of mental health promotion on the political, health and social and economic agenda. I hope we have managed to maintain Dr Trents tradition.

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