| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 293 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Relationality and Relatedness in the Context of Distress and Recovery: Key Foundations -- 1: Introduction: Why Relationships Matter for Mental Health -- References -- 2: Conceptual Foundations: Relational Thinking for Mental Health Contexts -- Being-With as a Fundamental Aspect of Personhood -- Understanding Relational Experience from a Developmental Perspective -- The Contrasting Experiences and Consequences of Intimacy and Loneliness -- Social Disadvantage and Mental Health -- Conclusions |
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Whanaungatanga Iho Supports Movement Through Distress into Recovery -- Enacting Whanaungatanga Iho to Create Long-Lasting Change -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- References -- 5: Relational Contexts as Causal and Curative Pathways in Recurrent Suicidal Distress and Repeated Police Mental Health Act (Section 136) Detention -- Introduction and Research Context -- A Note on Terminology -- Suicidality -- Personality Disorder Diagnoses -- A Relational Model of Recurrent Suicidality -- Relationships: The Critical Scaffold to Psychosocial Development -- Distress as a Relational Disorder |
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Conclusion: The Reparational Potential of Relationships -- References -- 6: Working Through Relational Trauma: An Exploration of Narratives of Lived Experiences of Trauma and Recovery -- Understanding Psychological Trauma in Adulthood -- Methodological Approach -- Case Studies -- Challenge and Struggle -- Connection -- Power and Loss -- Independence and Perceived Helpful Coping Strategies -- Awareness and Making Sense of Memory -- Hope -- Reconceptualising Relational Trauma and Recovery Through a Relational and Existential-Phenomenological Approach -- Relational-Centred Principles |
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Integrating an Existential-Phenomenological Approach -- Recommendations for Working Through Relational Trauma -- References -- Part III: Peers, Family and Community: Care and Companionship Through Distress and Recovery -- 7: Understanding the Value Base That Supports the Development of Peer Support Relationships -- What Is Peer Support? -- Evolution of Peer Support in the Global North -- The Peer Support Relationship -- Sharing Experiences of Mental Health Challenges -- Taking an Interest in One Another's 'Whole Lives' -- Considering One Another to Be Equals -- Boundaries |
| Summary |
This interdisciplinary edited volume examines the complexities of relational life in the context of psychological distress and recovery. It is well documented that supportive, close relationships are central to wellbeing. This volume explores how connectedness is shaped by mental health settings, interventions and mental health experiences - and vice versa. In doing so, this work provides important insights for adult mental health care, where systems and settings can often struggle to take account of the relational context of distress and recovery. This is the first book to address the emerging shift towards a relational account of distress and recovery through a focus on people's experiences. Chapters explore community and statutory service settings, privileging the voices of those experiencing distress, their loved ones and the professionals who work with them. It also extends recent interest in the role of loneliness and social isolation in mental health, to consider themes such as belonging, connection, care and intimacy. It will appeal to mental health practitioners as well as academics in the fields of psychology, sociology, psychotherapy, psychiatry, social policy and social work |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
References -- 3: Clinical Foundations: A Brief History of Relational Practice -- The Relationship as Therapeutic -- The "Independence Imperative" in Adult Mental Health Services -- A Paradigm Shift? Towards a Relational Practice -- Relational Alternatives and Innovations -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II: Relational Trauma -- Relational Recovery -- 4: Family Relatedness for Māori Survivors of Familial Childhood Sexual Abuse -- Whanaungatanga and Doing Family -- Kaupapa Māori Methodology -- Survivor Experiences of Whanaungatanga |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 29, 2024) |
| Subject |
Interpersonal relations -- Psychological aspects
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Mental health -- Social aspects
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Mental health services.
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Mental Health Services
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Boden-Stuart, Zoë, editor
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Larkin, Michael, editor
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| ISBN |
9783031500473 |
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3031500474 |
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