Mental Health Consumers’ Motives for Seeking Advocacy Support: A Qualitative Exploration
© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. Advocacy plays a vital role in ensuring that mental health consumers’ rights are maintained. However, the primary issues for which consumers seek advocacy support remain unknown. Understanding these issues provides a sound basis from which advocacy organ...
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| author | Stomski, N. Morrison, P. Whitely, Martin Brennan, P. |
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| description | © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. Advocacy plays a vital role in ensuring that mental health consumers’ rights are maintained. However, the primary issues for which consumers seek advocacy support remain unknown. Understanding these issues provides a sound basis from which advocacy organisations may develop a clear service delivery focus. This study addresses the literature gap through presenting a qualitative analysis of 60 records from an advocacy service. Four major themes emerged, across which two key issues were dominant: the sense of fearfulness and disempowerment. These issues accentuate the importance of advocates in enhancing the agency of mental health consumers. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-733892018-12-13T09:35:32Z Mental Health Consumers’ Motives for Seeking Advocacy Support: A Qualitative Exploration Stomski, N. Morrison, P. Whitely, Martin Brennan, P. © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. Advocacy plays a vital role in ensuring that mental health consumers’ rights are maintained. However, the primary issues for which consumers seek advocacy support remain unknown. Understanding these issues provides a sound basis from which advocacy organisations may develop a clear service delivery focus. This study addresses the literature gap through presenting a qualitative analysis of 60 records from an advocacy service. Four major themes emerged, across which two key issues were dominant: the sense of fearfulness and disempowerment. These issues accentuate the importance of advocates in enhancing the agency of mental health consumers. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73389 10.1007/s10597-017-0177-9 Springer New York LLC restricted |
| spellingShingle | Stomski, N. Morrison, P. Whitely, Martin Brennan, P. Mental Health Consumers’ Motives for Seeking Advocacy Support: A Qualitative Exploration |
| title | Mental Health Consumers’ Motives for Seeking Advocacy Support: A Qualitative Exploration |
| title_full | Mental Health Consumers’ Motives for Seeking Advocacy Support: A Qualitative Exploration |
| title_fullStr | Mental Health Consumers’ Motives for Seeking Advocacy Support: A Qualitative Exploration |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mental Health Consumers’ Motives for Seeking Advocacy Support: A Qualitative Exploration |
| title_short | Mental Health Consumers’ Motives for Seeking Advocacy Support: A Qualitative Exploration |
| title_sort | mental health consumers’ motives for seeking advocacy support: a qualitative exploration |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73389 |