Empowerment, Lifelong Learning and Recovery in Mental Health

JILL ANDERSON Senior Project Development Officer for the Mental Health in Higher Education project ww.mhhe.heacademy.ac.uk and is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Cumbria, UK ANJA ESTHER BAUMANN Technical Officer for Mental Health at the WHO Regional Office for Europe WILMA BOEVINK Social scientist and an active member of the Dutch user movement in psychiatry. She is professor of Recovery at Hanze University Groningen, the Netherlands JED BOARDMAN Chair of the General and Community Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in London, UKDAVID CREPAZ-KEAY User and Advisor for the Mental Health Foundation in London, UKLARRY DAVIDSON Professor of Psychology at the University of Yale, Department of Psychiatry, USAIAN DAWSON Researcher and work package leader for dissemination in the EMILIA projectBARBARA EVANS Trained as a social worker and currently works for Hampshire County Council (UK) as a Workforce Development Advisor for Mental Health, UK ELIZABETH FLANAGAN Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, USAHELEN GLOVER Social worker in the UKCHRIS GRIFFITHS has worked on two Europe wide European Union funded mental health projectsJANET HOLMSHAW Senior Lecturer in mental health at Middlesex University, UKEMMANUELLE JOUET Specialist in educational sciences and researcher for the Emilia project at the Maison Blanche Research Unit in Paris, FranceMARJA KAUNONEN Adjunct Professor at the University ofTampere, Finland, Department of Nursing Science in the EMILIA Project IRJA NIEMINEN has worked as a researcher in the EMILIA project. Currently she is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Nursing Science, University of Tampere, FinlandTORILL KLEVAN NILSEN Member of Mental Health, a user organization in Norway KLAUS NYBORGJAMES OGUNLEYE serves on the European Commission's Panel of Experts projects scrutineer/reviewer on Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013KATE SAULT is WRAP Co-ordinator, a role she developed within the Southern Health TrustJUSTINE SCHNEIDER Social researcher and social worker. She is currently professor of mental health and social care at the Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, UKGEOFF SHEPHERD Policy Advisor to the employment programme team at SCMH and is currently involved in the project run by an independent sector provider (Richmond Fellowship Employment and Training) to evaluate the impact of 'employment specialists' in primary careTERESE STENFORS-HAYES Specialist in the field of medical education and is currently employed as a researcher at the University of British Columbia, CanadaTHOMAS STYRON Clinical psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, USAROBERT SURBER, MSSW, Clinical Professor with the University of California San Francisco, Department of Psychiatry, and Principal of Robert Surber Consultation in Behavioral Health, located in San Francisco, California, and Keaau Hawaii, USA

• List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; P.Ryan , S.Ramon & T.Greacen PART I: RECOVERY Recovery, Lifelong Learning, Empowerment & Social Inclusion: Is A New Paradigm Emerging?; H.Glover TREE: Towards Recovery, Empowerment and Experiential Expertise of Users of Psychiatric Services; W.Boevink Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP); B.Evans & K.Sault The Role of Mental Health Service Users in Recovery from Professional Stigma; R.W.Surber Developing Successful Recovery-Oriented Mental Health Services; J.Boardman & G.Shepherd PART II: SOCIAL INCLUSION AND EMPLOYMENT Designing Policies to Foster the Community Inclusion of People in Recovery; L.Davidson , E.Flanagan , & T.Styron Employment and Social Inclusion: Implementing the Model and Facing the Reality; J.Schneider Overcoming Barriers to Empowerment; T.Greacen & E.Jouet PART III: EMPOWERMENT AND LIFELONG LEARNING Empowerment: Key Concepts and Evidence Base; A.Baumann, P.Ryan & C.Griffiths Evaluating Service User Involvement in Mental Health Services; D.C.Keay Lifelong Learning, Mental Health and Higher Education: A UK Focus; J.Anderson & J.Holmshaw Lifelong Learning and Wellbeing: The Health Benefits of Lifelong Learning for People With Mental Illness; J.Ogunleye , C.Griffiths , I.Dawson & K.Nyberg Stakeholders' Lifelong Learning and Organisational Change Experiences in the Context of the EMILIA Project; M.Kaunonen & S.Ramon 'Getting on with Your Life': A User's Experience of Participating in the EMILIA Project; T.K.Nilsen Service Users' Experiences of Lifelong Learning; I.Nieminen & T.K.Nilsen Mental Health Service Users as Trainers in the Context of the EMILIA Project; T.Stenfors-Hayes & P.Ryan Index