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Mental Health, Psychiatry and Wellbeing
March 20-21, 2019 | New York, USA
From personal mental
distress to political global
mental health advocate: A
political autoethnography
on transformational
recovery through
lived experience and
international social work
practice in 2018
Matthew Jackman
Monash University, Australia
In September 2018, the World
Health Organisation hosted
the Annual Mental Health
Gap Forum. WHO launched
mental health as the fifth non-
communicable disease reflecting
a significant shift in responding
to mental health at a global level
as another public health issue
require a global crisis response.
The writer found himself at
this forum through a political
process of transformative
recovery. His contribution to the
Mental Health Gap Forum at
‘WHO’ and the Inaugural Global
Ministerial Mental Health Summit
in London September 2018
reflect the growth and capacity
of humanity are experiencing
mental distress and contact with
the public mental health system
in Australia as a service user.
Furthermore, his family caregiver
mental health lived experience
and professional mental health
social work experience are
drawn together throughout a
retrospective autoethnographic
account of global mental health
advocacy as a person with lived
experience of mental distress and
as an international social worker.
He documents the process of
using his experience to advocate
for other silenced people and
groups with lived experience
to be involved throughout the
global decision making bodies
and service systems. He identifies
the importance of peer work
as a human rights discipline
and an area for social work to
develop strong global allegiance.
The autoethnography account
maps his journey throughout
2018, from admission to a
psychiatric hospital in June 2018
to undertake global mental
health advocacy on behalf of his
lived experience community at
‘WHO’ in September 2018. The
results illustrate the importance
of lived experience leadership in
mental health and international
social work as a means to achieve
attitudinal change at WHO in
focusing on human rights and
social justice as core interventions
to redressing the global mental
health crisis.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EMERGENCYMENTAL HEALTH AND HUMAN RESILIENCE 2019, VOLUME 21
DOI: 10.4172/1522-4821-C2-030
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