Tim:
Not been in touch with you for some time. I think your contact with
our Tybalds committee was not taken up by them. Is this WRAP
connected with the mentalisation model? In the longer term, I have
an idea for a conference on attachment work, which is very fragmented
at present due to funding problems. Its link with mentalisation work
(if connected with WRAP) hopefully could be exploited to the
advantage of community issues. Any useful idea needs careful
translation into action. I am just about to write to Prof. Anthony
Bateman on a related matter Best wishes, Erica
On 13 Oct 2010, at 07:25, Tim Anstiss wrote:
> But while we wait for the selfish capitalist system to be
> overthrown, does WRAP represent progress over the biomedical model?
> Tim.
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> From: Annie Mitchell <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)
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> Hi Mel,
>
> I agree with your critique. If you re able to search the archives
> of this list you will find that this topic has been debated along
> similar lines in the past .
>
> Much of the current moves in health provision ( WRAP included) ,
> while no doubt in part and to some extent well -intentioned serve
> merely to add weight to the systemic victim blaming of those on the
> margins, and to distract and dis-arm the unwary from focusing on
> and fighting the structural, socio-economically determined
> ( selfish capitalist) causes of distress.
>
> Good wishes,
>
> Annie
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> Subject: Re: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)
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> Dear Mel
>
> I thought your critique was very cogent and well-argued. I'd agree
> that
> this model uses discursive strategies to create a "normal"/expected
> service
> user who responds appropriately to expectations of self-management
> and is
> likely to further marginalise people who dont fit in. Your request
> for any
> information about the impact of this is a relevant one.
>
> I dont have experience with this particular model, but would tend
> to be
> suspicious of claims that putting in words like "hope" and
> "self-assertiveness" achieve much. Any amount of "person-centred"
> language
> in learning disabilities services for instance, has not actually
> handed
> power over to disadvantaged and marginalised service users and has
> blunted
> real reflection by care providers on the uses and abuses of
> paternalism. I
> think that you can maintain and foster respect, sensitivity,
> curiousity and
> tolerance without needing this sort of framework. Another example
> is from
> children's services where practitioners are meant to complete
> "holistic"
> assessments including looking at social, economic and cultural
> context.
> They usually just leave that section out and focus on pathologising
> children
> and parents.
>
> Deborah
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mel Wiseman" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 11:31 AM
> Subject: Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)
>
>
> Hi
>
> I’m a newly qualified clinical psychologist currently in AMH, a new
> poster
> on the forum, and relatively new to Community Psychology as an entity,
> although I have held the values and ideas that now draw me to it
> for some
> years.
>
> I would like to ask the forum for their comments and experiences in
> relation
> Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) which is both a tool and an
> approach
> that is being promoted across mental health in the community, acute
> settings
> and in prisons across the Midlands and some other areas. For those
> who are
> uninitiated http://www.mentalhealthrecovery.com/, but essentially
> it works
> officially on 5 principles for ‘Wellness’ in 'recovering from a
> breakdown':
> Hope, Self-Responsibility, Self-Assertiveness, Education and
> Support from 5
> people. There has been some nod toward 2 additional considerations of
> ‘power’ and ‘context’, but this is not part of the original model
> and is not
> well understood or integrated. It seems to perform a similar role
> to Care
> Plans and Relapse Prevention plans, but encompasses more than just
> mental
> health and is owned by the person.
>
> I have recently been to a training session on WRAP and am being
> asked to
> comment on it as an approach within or alongside psychology and AMH
> generally – how it fits. It is being sold as a vast improvement on
> current
> practise due to the ‘handing responsibility and ownership to the
> service
> user’ and ‘collaborative approach’. Psychologists and
> Psychiatrists here
> are being asked to lead on its implementation as we become a
> ‘Recovery led
> NHS trust’. Comments that I (et al) made to the training
> facilitator were
> the following:
>
> · Use of the term ‘Wellness’ – implies illness and does nothing to
> move away
> from the medical model.
> · Perpetuation of individualised notions of mental distress through
> ‘self-responsibility’ and ‘self-assertiveness’ – no understanding
> of whether
> someone has the power to improve or maintain their ‘wellness’
> through these
> methods or whether they find it meaningful to think in this way.
> · Potentially abusive use of clinician devolved ‘self-
> responsibility’ and
> competency of individuals to deliver this approach competently and
> sensitively.
> · Primarily has been targeted at BME groups, ‘hard to engage’
> groups and in
> some cases involuntarily to secondary care mental health service
> users in
> prison. I’m concerned that this may further burden people who have
> less
> power to be ‘responsible’ for their mental health because they
> don’t fit the
> existing systems – maybe it frees them from services they don’t
> want to be
> part of?
>
> I don’t think that I have the knowledge or experience to comprehend
> the
> impact (positive or negative) of such a shift in emphasis (if it
> indeed
> happens in practice). I would be interested in the views of others
> who may
> have experienced the uses and abuses of this, have alternative
> suggestions,
> comments or reactions in relation to mental health practise or
> Psychology in
> general.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mel
>
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