Munro, Nell
'Legitimacy and effectiveness: the meaning, extent and regulatory relevance of involving mental health service users in care planning'
The involvement of mental health service users in personal care planning is defined as a guiding principle for care providers by the Department of Health. The extent to which the Care Programme Approach and other modes of delivering community care actually facilitate such involvement is already the subject of research. These studies have tended to rely on normative justifications for involvement such as the view that it promotes individual autonomy. Regulatory theorists, instead, argue that such involvement is necessary to ensure the effectiveness of legal interventions in the field of community mental health. This research examines how involvement is understood from the perspective of service users and what their understandings imply for the likely effectiveness of regulatory interventions in their lives and the creation of regulatory safeguards.
The study employs a combination of qualitative methods to build up a picture of mental health service users perspectives on their involvement in their care. Autopoietic systems theory is being used to structure an analysis of if and how such involvement affects practice across a range of social systems, including law and medicine.
Professor Peter Bartlett
ESRC
Academic Qualification
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Awarding Institution
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LLB (Hons)
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Queen Mary, University of London
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MA Socio-legal and Criminological Research
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University of Nottingham
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PhD
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University of Nottingham
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‘What can policy makers learn from homicide inquiries?’ Given at Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation Postgraduate Conference, September 2005, LSE
Nell previously worked as a community mental health advocate in West London.
Nell graduated in December 2008 and is now Lecture in Law at the School of Law, University of Nottingham.