Hi Nicola
Ann Davis (in Birmingham) did a literature review on personal finances and mental health which you might find useful:
http://www.socialexclusionunit.gov.uk/downloaddoc.asp?id=204
Ann tells me it includes interesting work by community psychologists (Sharpe and Bostock in the bibliography of the review); and a reference to recent work by Kempson (from the credit/debt industry side).
You may already have come across the social exclusion unit pack, but if not it is here:
http://www.socialexclusionunit.gov.uk/downloaddoc.asp?id=200
More written and in video resources can be found on Rethink, MIND and Royal College of Psychiatrists websites.
Ann is supervising a CASE ESRC doctoral student, Bev Smith. She is looking at issues of mental health, poverty and social exclusion. You could contact her via [log in to unmask]
Best wishes,
Jill
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Subject: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] debt
Hello
I work in a primary care mental health service and in working with some
people have been trying to think with them about substantial debts that
are causing problems, which, without resolving, would continue to impact
negatively on quality of life and mental health. We have challenged
attempts to look at the problem soley in terms of the impact on the
person and instead have explored ideas about credit industry interests
and cultures of consumption associated with increasng debt in society,
but ideally we would like to pursue some possible ways out of the debt
sentence.
I would be very interested to hear views or suggestions you may have on
how we may address this.
Best wishes, Nicola
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