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Anticipated and experienced stigma and discrimination in the workplace among in...
Van Bortel, Tine; Wickramasinghe, Nuwan Darshana; Treacy, Samantha; Khan, Nashi; Ouali, Uta; SUMATHIPALA, ATHULA; Svab, Vesna; Nader, Doaa; Kadri, NadiaABSTRACT: Objectives: Workplace stigmatisation and discrimination are significant barriers to accessing employment opportunities, reintegration and promotion in the workforce for people with mental illnesses in comparison to other disabilities. This paper presents qualitative evidence of anticipated and experienced workplace stigma and discrimination among individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) in 35 ...
The role of community integration and empowerment for the transformative change...
Ornelas, José; Monteiro, Maria Fátima Jorge; Duarte, Teresa; Moniz, Maria João VargasThe present article first presents a critique about the current status of the community mental health (CMH) field. Second, based on theoretical and empirical literature, it presents a perspective inspired by the inception of community psychology, namely the empowerment and community integration principles to offer a challenging framework to inspire reforms in the CMH field. The article also discusses two promis...
Homeless adults’ recovery experiences in housing first and traditional services...
Greenwood, Ronni Michelle; Manning, M; O' Shaughnessy, Branagh; Moniz, Maria João Vargas; Loubiere, Sandrine; Spinnewijn, Freek; Lenzi, MichelaAcross Europe, as governments turn to housing-led strategies in attempts to reverse rising rates of homelessness, increasing numbers of Housing First (HF) programs are being implemented. As HF programs become more widespread, it is important to understand how service users experience them compared to the more prevalent traditional treatment-first approach to addressing long-term homelessness. Although there is ...
Empowerment promotion through competitive employment for people with psychiatri...
Fernandes, Luis Maria Garcia Rolo Sá; Monteiro, Maria Fátima Jorge; Ornelas, JoséBACKGROUND: Despite ample research about empowerment or supported employment in the mental health field, research about people with psychiatric disabilities in competitive employment and its impact on personal empowerment using standardized measurements needs to be expanded. OBJECTIVE: This study examined if competitive employment contributes to a positive impact on personal empowerment among 55 people with psy...
The Capabilities Questionnaire for the Community Mental Health context (CQ-CMH)...
Sacchetto, Beatrice; Aguiar, Rita; Monteiro, Maria Fátima Jorge; Neves, Maria João; Cruz, Maria Adelaide; Coimbra, José António; Ornelas, JoséThe involvement of people with psychiatric disabilities in research and service evaluation has traditionally been rare, especially in the construction of outcome measures. This study documents a collaborative process with consumers from 2 Portuguese community mental health services in the construction of the Capabilities Questionnaire for the Community Mental Health context (CQ-CMH). The measure is inspired by ...
“What’s wrong with the seed?” A comparative examination of an empowering commun...
Monteiro, Maria Fátima Jorge; Ornelas, JoséThis cross-sectional group comparison aimed to examine whether personal empowerment, recovery and community integration were associated with the individual's participation in an empowering community-centered model of intervention. Ninety-three participants from an empowering community-centered community mental health organization were compared with a matched group of individuals from standard interventions of f...
Contributos do modelo "Empowerment - Comunidade" para a mudança transformativa ...
Monteiro, Maria Fátima JorgeA presente Tese designada Contributos do Modelo “Empowerment-Comunidade” para a Mudança Transformativa na Saúde Mental Comunitária: Análise Comparativa é um estudo transversal usando metodologias e técnicas mistas (quantitativas e qualitativas). A investigação assentou no pressuposto de que, adoptando processos organizacionais transformativos, as organizações comunitárias de saúde mental poderão funcionar como ...
Recovery assessment scale : Testing validity with portuguese community-based me...
Monteiro, Maria Fátima Jorge; Ornelas, JoséThe aim of the present study was to develop the Portuguese version of the Recovery Assessment Scale (RAS-P), and to assess the validity of the findings using the revised test, with 213 users from 5 nonprofit community-based mental health organizations. Participants in the assessment completed a self-reported survey investigating their sense of personal recovery, personal empowerment, capabilities achievement, p...
What transformation? A qualitative study of empowering settings and community m...
Monteiro, Maria Fátima Jorge; Aguiar, Rita; Sacchetto, Beatrice; Moniz, Maria João Vargas; Ornelas, JoséThis article is based on empowering settings research and has a two-fold objective: to propose an adaptation of the empowering community settings framework to community mental health organizations practice to foster recovery and community integration; and to discuss how the adapted framework is a relevant tool to challenge community mental health transformation at multiple levels of analysis. The current study ...
Properties of the portuguese version of the empowerment scale with mental healt...
Monteiro, Maria Fátima Jorge; Ornelas, JoséBackground: This study examines the reliability and validity of the Portuguese version of the Empowerment Scale (ES) to be used in the community/psychosocial mental health field. Authors also reviewed the properties of the development and cross-cultural adaptation of the ES. Because mental health services are required to encourage empowerment and recovery-oriented interventions, adequate empowerment-oriented ou...