The Institute of Applied Psychology Interdisciplinary Series at the University of Pittsburgh presents
"Evidence, Structure, Meaning, Justice: Reimagining Mental Health Services”
Nev Jones, PhD
10:30am December 11, 2023 webinar
Abstract: In spite of the promises of the community mental health movement and deinstitutionalization, outcomes among those labeled with serious mental illness (SMI), including schizophrenia, remain abysmally poor: unemployment, poverty, precarity and, in many countries, criminalization and incarceration, are the norm. Against this backdrop, this presentation takes up the question of what it would really take to fundamentally transform systems of support, focusing on "non-reformist reforms" in the areas of social welfare policy, evidence and meaning, and epistemic justice.About the speaker: Nev Jones is faculty in the School of Social Work and Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh with interdisciplinary training in continental philosophy, community psychology and medical anthropology. An activist-scholar, her work focuses on dismantling carcerality, structural violence and epistemic injustice in mental health and adjacent social welfare systems and services.