Julian Raffay

Julian Raffay was working as Specialist Chaplain (Research, Education and Development) until his post at Mersey Care was cut in March 2020. Since then, he has completed his professional doctorate on the relationship between mental health services and faith communities with particular emphasis on the ethics of coproduction. He returned briefly to church ministry as Interim Team Rector in an economically disadvantaged parish in Liverpool. He is now Director of Chaplaincy Studies at St Padarn’s Institute, Cardiff.
 

Books by Julian Raffay

Coproduction: Towards equality in mental healthcare

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This collection of chapters casts a critical eye on the concept of coproduction in our national mental health and learning disability services. Is it naive idealism? A one-way road to co-optioning the independent user/survivor movement? A major challenge to the hegemony of the psychiatric profession? The next progressive step in the shift away from medicalised care? Or is it…