TY - BOOK AU - Staddon,Patsy TI - Mental Health Service Users in Research : Critical Sociological Perspectives / SN - 9781447307341 U1 - 362.2072 PY - 2015/// CY - UK . : PB - Policy Press . ; KW - Social work with people with mental disabilities KW - People with mental disabilities KW - Mental health personnel and patient KW - Discrimination against the mentally ill KW - Mental health services KW - Medical personnel and patient KW - Mentally Ill Persons KW - Mental Health Services KW - Health Services Research KW - Professional-Patient Relations N1 - Papers based on seminar series held at the British Library in 2009; 1. Sociology and survivor research: an introduction / Angela Sweeney -- 2. Mental health service users' experiences and epistemological fallacy / Hugh Middleton -- 3. Doing good carer-led research: reflecting on 'Past Caring' methodology / Wendy Rickard and Rachel Purtell -- 4. Theorising service user involvement from a researcher perspective / Katherine C. Pollard and David Evans; 5. How does who we are shape the knowledge we produce? Doing collaborative research about personality disorders / Steve Gillard, Kati Turner and Marion Neffgen -- 6. Where do service users' knowledges sit in relation to professional and academic understandings of knowledge? / Peter Beresford and Kathy Boxall -- 7. Recognition politics as a human rights perspective on service users' experiences of involvement in mental health services / Lydia Lewis; 8. Theorising a social model of 'alcoholism': service users who misbehave / Patsy Staddon -- 9. "Hard to reach"? Racialised groups and mental health service user involvement / Jayasree Kalathil -- 10. Individual narratives and collective knowledge: capturing lesbian, gay and bisexual service user experiences / Sarah Carr -- 11. Alternative futures for service user involvement in research / Hugh McLaughlin -- 12. Brief reflections / Patsy Staddon N2 - In examining how our identity shapes the knowledge we produce, mental health service users in research considers ways of 'doing research' which bring multiple understandings together effectively, and explains the sociological use of autobiography and its relevance ER -