Finding Our Way
Family Experiences in Mental Health Recovery
- Publisher
- The Mission Media Company Inc.
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2018
- Category
- Mental Health, General
- Recommended Age
- 15 to 18
- Recommended Grade
- 10 to 12
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781775362005
- Publish Date
- Jun 2018
- List Price
- $36
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Description
"Finding Our Way" is a collection of narratives from family members who share their experience and insight, gained from their family's mental health recovery journey. The second half of the book presents chapters by practitioners who focus on helping families on their path back to health and balance.
About the author
Contributor Notes
Stuart Clarfield is born in Toronto Ontario Canada, and is a life-long film-maker, media producer and content creator. This is his first published book. He has authored a number of screenplays, including the feature film “Welcome to the Parade”. He is a BFA graduate of York University, Dept. of Film and Video Production in Toronto, and holds an MBA from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College, Wellesley, MA. Stuart is also a Director graduate of the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto.
Excerpt: Finding Our Way: Family Experiences in Mental Health Recovery (by (author) Stuart Clarfield)
What is the relevance of following in someone’s footsteps and hearing what they saw, touched, experienced and learned?
In the field of mental health and mental health recovery, the last number of decades have seen progress in starting to accept and honour the value of experience that individuals can share with each other, as it relates to mental illness and personal journeys to recovery.
Families are now connecting with each other to pass on insights and create family peer communities.
The journey families make is one to rebalance, comprehend, accept, understand, forgive and learn from those events – in a way that can help yourself, your family and hopefully, other families like yours.
Editorial Reviews
Listening to both individuals and families about distress, illness and coping is crucial since not only are we experts of own experiences but being able to share our stories is healing. User-friendly family peer information is the foundation for family mental health recovery. Terry-Lee Martinnen Family representative, EPION PhD Candidate, Oxford Brookes University, UK