Mutual Recovery for Mental Health and Wellbeing through Creative Practice

该项目发展赠款的重点是通过在心理健康方面的创造性实践，在相互恢复领域建立一个实质性的财团提案。通过相互恢复，我们指的是各种连接的服务用户，卫生专业人员和非正式护理人员社区的潜力，以促进彼此的福祉-在这种情况下，在精神卫生方面。我们所说的创造性实践是指绘画、表演和讲故事等活动。因此，我们有兴趣询问这种创造性实践，以及在物理世界和通过数字媒体分享创造性实践的输出和经验，可能有助于（或不）相互恢复的过程。通俗地说，我们感兴趣的是，例如，如何（以及是否）创造，分享和讨论一个创造性的输出我们的项目是在一个持续和不断增长的精神痛苦负担的背景下进行的，而不是将康复视为治愈或根除问题，它承认无论是否有持续的症状或残疾，都有可能恢复有意义和更有复原力的生活。与此同时，人们越来越担心心理健康服务人员本身以及英国大量非正式护理人员（600万至700万）是否需要在日益威胁的生产线组织或孤立和支持不足的环境中“恢复”并分别培养弹性，研究表明这会促进同情心的枯竭。此外，关于创造性实践，迄今为止，通过医疗保健的治疗逻辑，服务用户已被定位为专业和非正式护理人员贡献的受益者，在创造机会，而不是创造能力本身。我们的研究提案提供了一个彻底的转变，在精神卫生保健的愿景-创造性实践的相互分享，在物理世界和通过数字媒体，可以改变如何专业人士，非正式的照顾者和服务用户一起工作，并采取新的机会，建立平等，欣赏和实质性连接的社区-相互希望，同情和团结的弹性社区。

This project development grant is focussed upon the creation of a substantial consortia proposal in the area of mutual recovery through creative practice in a mental health context. By mutual recovery we refer to the potentials for variously connected communities of services users, health professionals and informal carers to facilitate each other's well being - in this case in a mental health context. By creative practice we are refer to activities such as painting, performance and story telling. Thus we are interested in interrogating how such creative practice, and the sharing of creative practice output and experiences in the physical world and via digital media, might be helpful (or not) in processes of mutual recovery. In lay terms, we are interested in, for example, how (and if) the creation, sharing and discussion of a creative output (such as a painting) might improve various people's health and wellbeing.Our project rests within a context of a continuing and growing burden of mental distress, where rather than viewing recovery as a cure or eradication of problems, it recognises the possibility of recovering a meaningful and more resilient life with or without ongoing symptoms or disabilities. At the same time, there are mounting concerns about whether mental health service staff themselves, and the great body of informal carers in the UK (6-7m) need to be 'recovered' and develop resilience respectively in increasingly threatening, production-line organisations or isolating and under-supported environments, which research suggests promote compassion depletion. Further, with respect to creative practice, to date, via the therapeutic logic of healthcare, the service user has been positioned solely as the beneficiary of professional and informal carer contributions in creating opportunities for this rather than having creative capacity themselves. Our research proposal offers a radical shift in vision in mental health care - that the reciprocal sharing of creative practice, in the physical world and via digital media, could transform how professionals, informal carers and service users work together and take new opportunities to build egalitarian, appreciative and substantively connected communities - resilient communities of mutual hope, compassion and solidarity.