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Syllabus Processes that promote social integration and recovery in mental health and other fields of social w - 3477
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Last update 24-10-2022
HU Credits: 4

Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master)

Responsible Department: Social Work

Semester: Yearly

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Prof. Ron Shor

Coordinator Email: ron.shor@mail.huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours: Wednesday 14:00-12:30

Teaching Staff:
Prof Ron Shor

Course/Module description:
The approach toward rehabilitation and inclusion of persons with mental illness and other disabilities has been changed in recent years. One of the main objectives of the area of rehabilitation is to enable persons coping with mental illness and other disabilities to live satisfying life as much as possible. However, frequently persons with mental illness and other disabilities experience challenges in the process of their rehabilitation. The research in this seminar will focus on the factors which can assist persons with mental illness and other disabilities in coping with the challenges of rehabilitation and recovery and in recovery oriented processes. It would also be possible to focus on the processes which family members of persons with disability experience.

Course/Module aims:
1. To develop knowledge how to study recovery and rehabilitation oriented processes in the area of mental health and other disabilities by implementing quantitative and qualitative research methods.
2. To develop how to develop a research proposal, implement the research methods and write a research report.

3. To develop knowledge how to develop a research plan, to implement it and to write a research report.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Knowledge how to develop a research proposal and implement it.

2. Knowledge how to develop and implement a research in the area of disabilities (for example research methods and relevant instruments)


Attendance requirements(%):
90%

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Lectures and students' presentations in class

Course/Module Content:
1. Presenting the research proposal on social inclusion and recovery.
2. Guidelines about the development of research proposals.
3. Implementation of research, analysis of data.
4. Presentations of research in class

Required Reading:
Required Reading


The Recovery Approach


Farkas, M. (2007). The vision of recovery today: What it is and what it means for services. World Psychiatry, 6(2), 68-74.

Jacobson N. & Greenley D. (2001). What is recovery? A conceptual model and explication Psychiatric Services, 52(4), 482-485.

Mead S. & Copeland M. E. (2000). What recovery means to us: Consumers’ perspective. Community Mental Health Journal, 36(3), 315-328.


Onken S. T., Craig C. M., Ridgway P., Ralph R. O. & Cook, J. (2007). A. an analysis of the definitions and elements of recovery : A review of literature. Psychiatric
Rehabilitation Journal, 31(1), 9-22.

Slade M. (2009) Personal recovery and mental illness: A guide for mental health professionals. Cambridge University Press. Chapter 3: What is recovery
& Chapter 9: The personal recovery framework

Stanhope V. & Solomon P. (2008). Getting the heart of recovery: Methods of studying recovery and their implications for evidence-based practice. 38, 885-899. British Journal of Social Work, 38, 885-899.

Silverstein S. M. & Bellack A. S. (2008). A scientific agenda for the concept of recovery as it applies to schizophrenia. Clinical Psychology Review, 28, 1108-1124.


The Recovery Stages

Beeble M. L. & Salem D. (2009) Understanding the phases of recovery from serious
mental illness: The roles of referent and expert power in a mutual-help setting. Journal of Community Psychology, 37(2), 249-267.

הדרה ושילוב חברתי

Hall E. (2010) Spaces of social inclusion and belonging for people with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. 54, Supplement I, 48-57.

Barnes H. (2011) Social exclusion and psychosis. Social Work in Mental Health, 2 (2-3), 207-233.

Davidson L., Stayner D. , Nickou C., Styron T. H., Rowe M. & Matthew C. (2001) ‘Simply to be let in’: Inclusion as a basis for recovery’. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 24(4), 375-388.

Oglive K. S., Brunner R., Maguire R. & Mitchell J. (2011) Tackling the barriers to disabled parents’ involvement in their children education. Educational Review, 63,2, 233-250.

Sawyer A. M. (2008) Risk and new exclusion in community mental health practice. Australian Social Work. 61(4), 327-341.


Wong Y. I. & Solomon P. L. (2002). Community integration of persons with psychiatric disabilities in supportive independent housing. A conceptual model and methodological considerations. Mental Health Services Research, 4(1), 13-28.


Examples for Recovery Oriented Processes

Identity

Brown K., Hammer D., Foley S., Woodring J. (2009) Doing disability: Disability Formation in the Search of Work. Sociological Inquiry, 79,1, 3-24.

Bland R. & Darlington Y. (2002) The nature and sources of hope: Perspectives of family caregivers of people with serious mental illness. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 38, 2, 61-68.

Forrester-Jones R. & Barnes A. (2008) On being a girlfriend not a patient: The quest for acceptable identity amongst people diagnosed with a severe mental illness. Journal of Mental Health, 17(2): 153-172.

Wisdom J. P., Bruce K., Saedi G. A., Weis T., Green C. A. (2008). ‘Stealing me from myself’: Identity and recovery in personal accounts of mental illness. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry; 42:489-495.

תקווה

Bland R. & Darlington Y. (2002) The nature and sources of hope: Perspectives of family caregivers of people with serious mental illness. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 38(2), 61-68.

Noh C., Choe K. & Yang B. (2008). Hope from the perspective of people with schizophrenia. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing (22), 69-77



Self Efficacy

Mancini M. A. (2007). The role of self-efficacy in recovery from serous psychiatric disabilities: A qualitative study with fifteen psychiatric survivors. Qualitative Social Work, 6, 49-74.


The Strengths Approach

Allison S., Stacey K., Kadds V., Roeger L., Wood A., Martin G. (2003) What the
family brings: Gathering evidence for strengths-based work. Journal of Family Therapy, 25, 263-284.

Stromwall L. K. Hurdle, D. (2003) Psychiatric Rehabilitation: An empowerment-based approach to mental health. Health & Social Work, 28(3), 206-213.

Smith E. J. (2006). The strength-based counseling model. The Counseling Psychologist, 34(1), 13-79.

Recovery, Learning From Persons Coping with Mental Illness

Deegan P. E. (1988). Recovery: The lived experience of rehabilitation. Psychosocial rehabilitation Journal, 11(4), 11-19.


Jensen L. W. & Wadkins T. A. (2007). Mental health success stories: Finding paths to recovery. Issues in mental health nursing, 28, 325-340.


Mead S. & Copeland M. E. (2000). What recovery means to us: Consumers’ perspective. Community Mental Health Journal, 36(3), 315-328.



Recovery Oriented Organziations

Farkas M., Gagne, C., Anthony W. & Chamberlin J. (2005). Implementing recovery oriented evidence based programs: Indentifying the critical dimensions. Community Mental Health Journal, 41(2), 141-158.

Jacobson L. & Curtis L. (2000). Recovery as policy in mental health services: Strategies emerging from the states. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 23(4), 333-339.





Additional Reading Material:
None

Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 10 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 70 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 20 %
research proposal

Additional information:
None
 
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