Profile

Mick McKeown

Principal Lecturer

School of Health

Harrington, HA028

+44 (0)1772 893792

mmckeown@uclan.ac.uk

• Service user and carer involvement
• Mental health advocacy
• Psychosocial interventions for people with serious mental health problems
• Secure mental health services
• The social construction of difference
• Social movements
• Q methodology

Publications

Refereed Publications

McKeown, M., Robertson, S.,  Habte-Mariam, Z. &  Stowell Smith, M. (2008) Masculinity and emasculation for black men in modern mental health care. Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care, 1, 1, 42-51.

Wright, K., McKeown, M. & Haigh, K. (2007) Reclaiming the humanity in personality Disorder. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 16, 236-246.

Newbigging, K. & McKeown, M. (2007) Mental health advocacy with black and minority ethnic communities: conceptual and ethical implications. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 20, 6, 588-593

Downe, S., McKeown, M., Johnson, E., Comensus Community Involvement Team, Comensus Advisory Group, Koloczek, L., Grunwald, A. & Malihi-Shoja, L. (2007) The UCLan  Community Engagement and Service User Support (Comensus) project: Valuing authenticity making space for emergence. Health Expectations, 10, 392-406

Slater, P. & McKeown, M. (2004) The role of peer counselling and support in helping to reduce anxieties around transition from primary to secondary school. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 4, 72-79.

McKeown, M., Anderson, J., Bennett, A. &  Clayton, P. (2003) Gender Politics and Secure Services For Women: Reflections on a study of staff understandings of challenging behaviour. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 10, 585-591

Books/Book Chapters

Newbigging, K., McKeown, M., Hunkins-Hutchinson, E., French, B. et al (2007) SCIE Knowledge Review 15: Mtetezi: Developing mental health advocacy with African and Caribbean men. Social Care Institute for Excellence, London. ISBN 978-1-904812-39-5

McKeown, M. (2007) Psychosocial interventions: an occupational delusion. In Pilgrim, D. (ed) Practice Change in High Secure Hospitals. Radcliffe Medical Press

McKeown, M. & Stowell-Smith, M. (2006) The comforts of evil: dangerous personalities in high security hospitals and the horror film. In Mason, T. (ed) Evil and psychiatry. Humana Press.

McKeown, M., Blundell, P., Lord, J. & Haigh, C. (2005) Organic Training and Development: Working with mental health teams directly in the workplace. In Carlisle, C. & Mercer, D. [eds] Interprofessional education: an agenda for health care professionals. Mark Allen, London.

McCann, G. & McKeown, M. (2003) Working with mentally disordered offenders. in Harris, N., Williams, S. & Bradshaw, T. [Eds] Psychosocial interventions for people with Schizophrenia. Macmillan, London.

McKeown, M. & McCann, G. & Forster, J.  (2003) Adapting psychosocial interventions to inpatient environments. in Harris, N., Williams, S. & Bradshaw, T. [Eds] Psychosocial interventions for people with Schizophrenia. Macmillan, London.

Anderson, J., Bennett, A., Clayton, P. & McKeown, M. (2002) Q Methodological Workshop. In Dale, C. & Storey, L (eds) Mentally disordered offenders with learning disabilities. Praxis Press

McKeown, M., Bingley, W., Denoul, I. (2002) A review of mental health advocacy services at the secure care services of Prestwich Hospital. UCLAN/North West Secure Commissioning Team

McKeown, M. & Stowell-Smith, M. (2001) Race, Stigma and Stereotyping: The Construction of Difference in Forensic Care. in Carlisle, C., Mason, M., Watkins, C. [Eds] Stigma and Social Exclusion in Health. Routledge, London.

McKeown, M. & Stowell-Smith, M. (2001) ‘Big, black and dangerous’?: the vexed question of race in forensic care. In Landsberg, G. & Smiley, A. (eds) Innovations in Forensic Mental Health. Civic Research Institute, New Jersey.

McKeown, M. (2001) Psychosocial interventions for a person with serious mental health problems, using street drugs, with a history of related offending. In Landsberg, G. & Smiley, A. (eds) Innovations in Forensic Mental Health. Civic Research Institute, New Jersey.

McKeown, M. (2000) Mental Health: Does the Practice Nurse Have a Role. in Carey, L. [Ed] Practice Nursing. Balliere Tindall, London.

McKeown, M., Mercer, D. & Finlayson, S. (2000) Targeting: the role of training. In Cotterill, L.  & Barr, W. [Eds] Targeting in Mental Health Services: A Multi-disciplinary Challenge. Ashgate, Oxon.

Published Abstracts 

Hopkins, R., Cox, P. & McKeown, M. (2007) Making sense of health and social care service user participation in a university setting: the relevance of social movement theory. Published conference papers for the Social Movements Conference, Manchester, April 2-4. [CD-Rom]

McKeown, M., Wright, K. &  Haigh, K. (2006) Promoting the person not the disorder – engaging with education. Published abstract for 6th Annual International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services Conference, Amsterdam, June 14-16. p 111

McKeown, M. & Spandler, H. (2006) Alienation and redemption: the potential for alliances with mental health service users. Published conference papers for the Social Movements Conference, Manchester, April 19-21. Volume III pp 111-126

Web Resources

Newbigging, K., McKeown, M., Habte-Mariam, Z., Mullings, D., Jaye-Charles, J. Holt, K. (2007) Commissioning and Providing Mental Health Advocacy for African and Caribbean Men: A Resource Guide. Social Care Institute for Excellence, London. [web-based resource] http://www.scie.org.uk/pg09

Projects

Current

• Comensus Project
• Mental Health Anti-Stigma Project
• Bradton Project
• Sandbox Project: peer communication and support

Recently Completed

• Knowledge Review of mental health advocacy with African and Caribbean men
  

External Activities

• UNISON National Nursing Sector Committee (1996-)
• Standing Nursing & Midwifery Advisory Committee (1999-2005)
• Mental Health Nursing Academics Group
• International Institute of Special Needs Offenders
• North West Advocacy Network
• HEFCE Mental Health in Higher Education Network
• CNO Review of Mental Health Nursing – Reference Panel (2005-2006)
• MIND Advocacy Standards Project – Reference Group (2005-2006)
• External examiner for Diploma/BMedSci in Forensic mental Health Practice, University of Sheffield (2002-2006).
• External examiner for pre-registration mental health nursing courses, Edge Hill University (2006-).
• Review journal papers and books for Journal of Advanced Nursing, Health & Social Care in the Community and Mental Health Care, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, and Mental Health Review Journal.
• Review research proposals for DoH Research for Patient Benefit funding stream.