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Practical compassions: repertoires of practice and compassion talk in acute mental healthcare (2013)
Journal Article
Brown, B., Crawford, P., Gilbert, P., Gilbert, J., & Gale, C. (2014). Practical compassions: repertoires of practice and compassion talk in acute mental healthcare. Sociology of Health and Illness, 36(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12065

This article reports an exploratory study of the concept of compassion in the work of 20 mental health practitioners in a UK Midlands facility. Using notions of practice derived from phenomenology and Bourdieusian sociology and notions of emotional l... Read More about Practical compassions: repertoires of practice and compassion talk in acute mental healthcare.

Creative practice as mutual recovery in mental health (2013)
Journal Article
Crawford, P., Lewis, L., Brown, B., & Manning, N. (2013). Creative practice as mutual recovery in mental health. Mental Health Review Journal, 18(2), https://doi.org/10.1108/MHRJ-11-2012-0031

Abstract
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the value of approaches to mental health based on
creative practice in the humanities and arts, and explore these in relation to the potential contribution to
mutual recovery.
Design/meth... Read More about Creative practice as mutual recovery in mental health.