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Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025
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Date posted: September 2024 No Banner module data is available
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Description Using the CHIME framework of mental health recovery, we explore the significance of connection, hope, identity, meaning and empowerment for making sense of mental health and illness. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Learning Outcomes 1. Explore the CHIME Framework (connection, hope, identity, meaning, empowerment) of mental health recovery as way of making sense of mental health and illness. 2. Discuss the nature and historical development of psychiatric confinement and institutions. 3. Consider the relations between mental health and social connection/disconnection. 4. Explore the meanings and significance of hope as this relates to mental health. 5. Consider the implications of psychiatric designation for identity, selfhood and social standing. 6. Explain the meaning and significance of living with oneself in the context of psychosis and psychiatric designation. 7. Examine the significance of various ways of explaining mental health problems. 8. Explore 'reasons to live' as an issue in surviving adversity and mental health. 9. Consider the meanings of agency and empowerment as they relate to mental health. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
"A Journey of the Heart": Ideas about mental health recoveryPatricia Deegan on her own recovery and its lessons; ideas of recovery; de-emphasising professional expertise and treatment; the CHIME model- recovery as connection, hope, identity, meaning and empowerment; CHIME as a basis for a general account of mental health and illness.Connection and mental health 1: Psychiatric confinement and segregation, past and presentThe history and development of the asylum system; total institutions; deinstitutionalisation; institutional coercion considered.Connection and mental health 2: Aloneness, relatedness and social involvementSolitude and loneliness; "anomie" and disconnection; social defeat; depression and disconnection; social capital and mental health; belonging and affiliation; digital relationships and face-to-face contact; mobilities and mental health; family and mental health; mental health in a shared world.Hope and mental health: "People will respect me and I'll be able to get a girlfriend"Hopelessness; expectations and mental health outcomes; conceptualisations of hope; hope as agency and pathways; notions of false hope; "the courage of hopelessness"; hope and survival; hope and resilience; hope-enhancing conversation; social hope.Identity and mental health 1: Psychiatric designation and selfhoodMental health problems as "illness"; strong and weak medical models; labelling, stigma and discrimination; living inside and outside of psychiatric identification; critiques of illness conceptualisations.Identity and mental health 2: "I had to be either a CIA agent or a mental patient. Which would you choose?"Notions of insight; living with oneself; being true to oneself; struggles over oneself; forming new identities; acceptance and resistance.Meaning and mental health 1: Explaining mental health problemsThe significance of explanation; biography and mental health; trauma, stress, and neglect; biomedical models and their limitations; culture, gender and mental health; mental health as a phenomenon "in-the-world".Meaning and mental health 2: "Reasons to live"Frankl and survival; purpose and family as reasons to live; the significance of reasons to live; tragic optimism; death and meaning; freedom, responsibility and meaning.Empowerment and agency: "Taking credit for success"Ipseity and self awareness; agency as a problem; attributing credit to oneself; learned optimism; building on success and strengths; strengths-based perspectives; goals and goaling; collective agency and empowerment; survivor organisations, social movements and mental health. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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