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Resources Multimedia Audio Downloads Making Recovery Real - Carers and informal supporters and recovery
Making Recovery Real - Carers and informal supporters and recovery |
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Date recorded: 26 February 2009 Carers and informal supporters can play an important role in a person’s recovery. This session offered an opportunity for participants to learn more and to discuss the role carers can play in supporting recovery. It features presentations from:
Walk with me Jean Johnston, The Carin Being ill with any form of mental distress is incredibly lonely, isolating and frightening. After 18 years of experience of seeing my daughter manage her recovery, I firmly believe this is a journey that can only be managed with the support of others - the carers - be they family, friends or professionals aided by the medical profession. Those companions who travel this journey will discover that recovery, like life itself, is an ongoing learning process.  Parallel session audio recording: Jean Johnston - Walk with me (18.8 MB)____________________________________________________________________________ NSF Scotland's Prospect programme: Recovery for carers Trisha Mullen, NSF Scotland / Prospects trainer Lorraine Keith, NSF Scotland / Prospects trainer This presentation gives a brief overview of the Prospect programme and how it supports recovery for carers. Trisha Mullen, a carers support worker with NSF and an informal carer herself, is a Prospect facilitator who has been involved with the programme since its early planning stages. Trisha gives a personal testimony of her experience of the Prospect programme personally and as a facilitator. Trisha will be followed by Lorraine Keith, a carers support worker with NSF, herself an informal carer and a Prospect facilitator. Lorraine gives an account of Prospect activities in Scotland to date, including feedback received by participants in the programme, and outlines NSF future hopes for Prospect. Parallel session audio recording: Trisha Mullen and Lorraine Keith-NSF Scotland's Prospect programme (22.26 MB)____________________________________________________________________________ Supporting Recovery: Family, informal carers and supporters Hester Parr, University of Glasgow This presentation profiles the background and methodology for a small-scale research project commissioned by the SRN and which will be carried out in 2009 with existing carers groups. The project seeks to understand further the ways in which families and informal supporters can assist in the recovery of people with mental health problems. The presentation covers the questions that drive the research project and the methods by which we hope to facilitate discussion amongst carers and supporters. Workshop participants are encouraged to comment on our methods and suggest their own answers to the questions that we are posing in the research project. Parallel session audio recording: Hester Parr - Supporting Recovery (20.86 MB) Parallel session presentation: Hester Parr - Supporting recovery (620.95 kB) |
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