Navigating Mental Health in the Male Open Prison re-examines how mental health is managed within the male open prison, focusing on the under-explored role of peer support during transfer, transition, and adaptation. Schreeche-Powell addresses a neglected gap in penal research by investigating how ‘well-meaning interventions’ can produce unintended, iatrogenic harms. Through the lens of power and pain, the book critically explores how peer-led support operates at a time of heightened stress and uncertainty to support adaptation and transition to the open prison environment.
With attention to theory, lived experience, and policy development, this book offers a vital and timely analysis of peer support and how it can better support those navigating the emotional and institutional complexities of open prison life.
Foreword; Shadd Maruna
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. ‘Pain Delivery’: Enduring Issues and (Forgotten) Pains
Chapter 3. ‘Pain Management’: Peer Support in Prison
Chapter 4. Researching Lived Experience with Lived Experience
Chapter 5. Cultures of Knowledge: Structural and Institutional Constraint and Impediment in Peer Support
Chapter 6. Responsibilisation: ‘It’s not really what it says on the tin’
Chapter 7. The Unintended Outcomes of Well-meaning Intervention? The Iatrogenic Outcomes of Peer Support
Chapter 8. Programme Theory: Absences and Deficiencies
Chapter 9. Unintended Harm, Unresolved Challenges: Concluding Thoughts
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