This chapter discusses the experience and outcomes of the cooperative inquiry, including the benefits experienced by each author in engaging in collective reflections and knowledge-building regarding mental health social work. The research process itself mirrors the arguments of the book, in terms of moving beyond neoliberal and individual-focused approaches to social work practice. We discuss opportunities for social workers to collectivise in order to foster an imagination about alternative ways of conceptualising ‘mental health’ and to carve out generative spaces beyond diagnostic paradigms of distress.

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Holding the Fine Line Between Transformation and Complicity

  • Louise Whitaker,
  • Katherine Reid,
  • Emma Tseris,
  • Hollie Ballingall,
  • Ashlea Borg,
  • Binti Jones,
  • Alex Olsen,
  • Aimee Pitt,
  • Lisa Thorpy

摘要

This chapter discusses the experience and outcomes of the cooperative inquiry, including the benefits experienced by each author in engaging in collective reflections and knowledge-building regarding mental health social work. The research process itself mirrors the arguments of the book, in terms of moving beyond neoliberal and individual-focused approaches to social work practice. We discuss opportunities for social workers to collectivise in order to foster an imagination about alternative ways of conceptualising ‘mental health’ and to carve out generative spaces beyond diagnostic paradigms of distress.