Recovery and Social Justice: Transforming mental health at
individual, service and societal levels
Wednesday 9th October 2013
Location:Westleigh Conference Centre, University of Central
Lancashire
How should we understand recovery? Is it a model for transforming
mental health services? Is it a strategy for wider social justice? Is it used to
legitimise a reduction in support for mental health service users? How do the
US, Canadian and UK experiences differ? This one day conference, hosted by
Mental Health Research @ UCLan, will explore the nature and practical
consequences of a recovery orientation in mental health for individuals,
services and wider society. There will be a particular focus on considering to
what extent recovery promotes social justice. This conference will be of
interest to those concerned with a critical perspective on recovery and the
concrete implications for practice to achieve social change: including service
users, carers, advocates, researchers, mental health professionals, commissioners
and managers, and third sector organisations.
Speakers will include:
Larry Davidson(Professor of Psychology, Programme for Recovery
and Community Health, Yale)
Kathryn Church(Director of the School of Disability Studies,
Ryerson University, Toronto)
Karen Newbiggingand Karen Machin (University of Central
Lancashire)
Hari Sewell (Senior Visiting Fellow at University of Central
Lancashire)
Geoff Shepherd(Recovery Lead at the Centre for Mental Health)
Comensus (UCLan’s community engagement
and service user support group)
For more details contact: Liz Roberts, healthconferences@uclan.ac.uk
01772 893809
To register for a place, please visit the conference website at:
www.uclan.ac.uk/conferences
Cost: £80 with bursaries available for service users and carers
