PAR

In progress…

Resources for Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR), Participatory Action Research(PAR), and Emancipatory Research (ER) involving researchers and co-researchers with (so-called) “serious mental illness.”

Books:

Schneider,
 B. 
(2010).
 Hearing 
[our]
 Voices:
 Participatory
 research 
in
 mental
 health.
 Toronto: 
University
 of 
Toronto 
Press.

Sweeney, A., Beresford, P., Rose, D., Faulkner, A., &  Nettle, M. (2009).  This is Survivor Research. PCCS.

Wallcraft, J., Schrank, B., & Amering M. (2009).  Handbook of Service User Involvement in Mental Health Research. London: Wiley-Blackwell.

Research Articles:

Davidson, L., Stayner, D. A., Lambert, S., Smith, P., & Sledge, W. H. (1997). Phenomenological and participatory research on schizophrenia: Recovering the person in theory and practice. Journal of Social Issues , 53, 767-784.

Nelson , G., Janzen, R., Ochocka, J., & Trainor, J. (2010). Participatory action research and evaluation with mental health self-help groups and organizations: A theoretical framework. In L. Brown & S. Wituk (Eds.), Mental health self-help: Consumer and family driven initiatives . New York : Springer.

Nelson, G., Ochocka, J., Griffin, K., & Lord, J. (1998). “Nothing about me, without me”: participatory action research with self-help/mutual aid organizations for psychiatric consumer/survivors. American Journal of Community Psychology, 26, 881-912.

Schneider B, Scissons H, Arney L, et al. (2004). Communication between people with schizophrenia and their medical professionals: a participatory research project. Qualitative Health Research, 14: 562-–577.