Introduction
Lauren Mizock and Erika Carr
in Women with Serious Mental Illness: Gender-Sensitive and Recovery-Oriented Care
This introductory chapter offers an overview of the book. It describes the need for this book given the lack of focus on women with serious mental illness as a whole in research and ...
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Women with Serious Mental Illness, Resilience, and the Recovery Movement
Lauren Mizock and Erika Carr
in Women with Serious Mental Illness: Gender-Sensitive and Recovery-Oriented Care
This chapter reviews the recovery movement and the importance of its role in the mental health care of women who experience serious mental illness. This chapter explores the foundations of ...
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Closing Thoughts: The Power of Narrative
Stephen P. Hinshaw
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
This chapter presents a commentary from the editor on the key issues found in these contributions and in providing my own personal perspective on the value of disclosure of mental ...
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Memories of Parental Decompensation
Theodore P. Beauchaine
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 8 describes the contributor’s his childhood, in which he, his twin sister, and their older brother coped with their mother’s descent into chronic schizophrenia. ...
Weeping Mother
Jarralynne Agee
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 9 explores the depression of the contributor’s mother, the poverty in which the family found itself for many years, and the impact of these early experiences on the contributor’s ...
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My Story Is One of Loss
Laura B. Mason
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 1 describes the disintegration of the contributor’s family in the wake of the forms of mental illness displayed, in turn, by each of her three older sisters. ...
In My Voice: Speaking Out About Mental Health and Stigma
Jeffrey Liew
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 5 explores the struggles of the contributor’s family as immigrants, compounded by his mother’s increasingly severe depression, and the stigma they encountered in their neighbourhood. ...
Motherhood, Family, and Relationships for Women with Serious Mental Illness
Lauren Mizock and Erika Carr
in Women with Serious Mental Illness: Gender-Sensitive and Recovery-Oriented Care
This chapter discusses the impact of a serious mental illness on relationships for women, including motherhood, friendship, family, and dating. The chapter will explore the ways in which a ...
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Preventing Retraumatization of Women with Serious Mental Illness
Lauren Mizock and Erika Carr
in Women with Serious Mental Illness: Gender-Sensitive and Recovery-Oriented Care
This chapter discusses the increased rates of victimization among women with serious mental illness. The concept of retraumatization in mental health services is explained and an overview ...
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Work and Class Among Women with Serious Mental Illness
Lauren Mizock and Erika Carr
in Women with Serious Mental Illness: Gender-Sensitive and Recovery-Oriented Care
This chapter presents the literature on women with serious mental illness and the intersecting experiences of work, class, poverty, and homelessness. This chapter includes literature that ...
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Trauma and Sexual Objectification of Women with Serious Mental Illness
Lauren Mizock and Erika Carr
in Women with Serious Mental Illness: Gender-Sensitive and Recovery-Oriented Care
This chapter reviews the feminist framework of objectification theory to help providers understand the unique experiences of women who live in a culture that views and values their bodies ...
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Women’s Empowerment and Recovery-Oriented Care: A New Intervention Model
Lauren Mizock and Erika Carr
in Women with Serious Mental Illness: Gender-Sensitive and Recovery-Oriented Care
This chapter introduces the Women’s Empowerment and Recovery-Oriented Care (WE-ROC) intervention, a model that integrates gender-sensitive and recovery-oriented approaches to clinical care ...
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Cultural Factors Among Women with Serious Mental Illness: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Spirituality
Lauren Mizock and Erika Carr
in Women with Serious Mental Illness: Gender-Sensitive and Recovery-Oriented Care
This chapter covers intersectional stigma, the overlapping, multiple levels of stigma and discrimination faced by women of color with serious mental illness, particularly with regard to ...
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Research Directions and Priorities
Stephen P. Hinshaw
in The Mark of Shame: Stigma of Mental Illness and an Agenda for Change
Chapter 8 features suggestions and strategies for further research on the stigmatization of mental illness. It aims to present material that is of use not only to the public at large but ...
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Stigma
Patrick E. Jamieson and Daniel Romer
in Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don't Know (2 ed.)
Stigma occurs when a person or group is negatively stereotyped and is treated as socially unacceptable. The stigma surrounding mental disorders poses significant barriers to identification, ...
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Acceptance of Mental Illness: Promoting Recovery Among Culturally Diverse Groups
Lauren Mizock and Zlatka Russinova
The book covers a topic that is often overlooked in the literature: How people with serious mental illnesses (i.e., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe depression) come to recognize and ...
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The Process of Acceptance of Mental Illness
Lauren Mizock and Zlatka Russinova
in Acceptance of Mental Illness: Promoting Recovery Among Culturally Diverse Groups
In this chapter, findings related to the process of acceptance of mental illness are presented using excerpts from research interviews with individuals with serious mental illness. ...
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Acceptance and the Recovery Paradigm in Mental Health Care
Lauren Mizock and Zlatka Russinova
in Acceptance of Mental Illness: Promoting Recovery Among Culturally Diverse Groups
Chapter 2 offers an overview of the recovery movement in the provision of mental health care for serious mental illness. Within the recovery movement in mental illness treatment, recovery ...
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Women with Serious Mental Illness: Gender-Sensitive and Recovery-Oriented Care
Lauren Mizock and Erika Carr
Women with Serious Mental Illness: Gender-Sensitive and Recovery-Oriented Care calls attention to a topic and a population that have been overlooked in research and ...
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History of the Mistreatment of Women with Serious Mental Illness
Lauren Mizock and Erika Carr
in Women with Serious Mental Illness: Gender-Sensitive and Recovery-Oriented Care
Chapter 2 reviews the history of psychiatric treatment of women with mental illness in the United States and Western Europe. The chapter covers ways in which labeling women as “mad’ has ...
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