Dear Colleagues
Would any care to explore this issue with me?
At last weeks SDS conference in Oakland I discussed
the issue of people with mental health problems /
experience moving on to joining one of the health care
professions e.g. Psychiatric nursing.
In UK the Department of Health are likely to publish a
positive statement encouraging this on the grounds of
equal opportunity in employment and the positive
contribution such experiences may bring to a role as a
health professional.
The RCN (London 3rd July) conference, in a few weeks
will be examining the role of health professionals in
the disability rights agenda- in essence I will argue
that one way of being with disable people on this
agenda is to open the way for them to become health
professionals.
One respected colleague at the SDS however was fairly
adamant that the effect of a mental health survivor
becoming a psychiatric nurse for instance would be for
them to simply take on an oppressive role seen as
characteristic of the so-called 'helping profession'
as whole.
View, experiences and research welcome.
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Philip Scullion
Senior Lecturer
Health and Social Sciences
Coventry University
UK
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