Supporting Connection, Intimacy and Relationships
The below list contains reading that you can easily access online. Click on the link to read your
selected article.
Canadian Mental Health Association 1999, ‘Sexuality, Intimacy and Relationships’ Visions: BC’s
Mental Health Journal, Spring/Summer, no. 5, pp. 1-32, viewed 7 July 2015,
http://www.cmha.bc.ca/files/visions_sexuality.pdf
Deegan, P 2001, Human Sexuality and Mental Illness: Consumer Viewpoints and Recovery Principles,
n.p. viewed 7 July 2015,
http://www.testing.peerzone.info/sites/default/files/resources/Deegan%20Human%20sexuality%20
and%20mental%20illness.pdf
Escovitz, K & Soloman, P 2005, Social Enhancement Workbook, UPENN Collaborative on Community
Integration, Philadelphia, viewed 7 July 2015,
http://tucollaborative.org/pdfs/Toolkits_Monographs_Guidebooks/recreation_leisure/Social_Enhan
cement_Wrkbk.pdf
McClure, L 2012, ‘Where is the Sex in Mental Health Practice? A Discussion of Sexuality Care Needs
of Mental Health Clients’ Journal of Ethics in Mental Health vol. 7 (special), no. 2, pp. 1-6, viewed 7
July 2015,
http://www.jemh.ca/issues/v7/documents/JEMH_Vol7WhereistheSexinMentalHealthPractice.pdf
Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Office 2013, Sexual Safety of Mental Health Consumers
Guidelines, Ministry of Health, New South Wales, viewed 7 July 2015,
http://www0.health.nsw.gov.au/policies/gl/2013/pdf/GL2013_012.pdf
Quinn, C 2014, Considering Sexual Intimacy and Balancing Rights for People in Long-Term Mental
Health Hospitals, Central Queensland University, Queensland, viewed 7 July 2015,
https://www.cqu.edu.au/cquninews/stories/research-category/2015/should-sexual-intimacy-be-offlimits-for-those-in-care-after-using-mental-health-defence
SANE Australia 2005, ‘Mental Illness and Social Isolation’ SANE Research Bulletin, no. 1, viewed 7 July
2015, https://www.sane.org/images/stories/information/research/0510_INFO_RB1.pdf
SANE Australia 2009, ‘Intimacy and Mental Illness’ SANE Research Bulletin, no. 8, viewed 7 July 2015,
https://www.sane.org/images/stories/information/research/0302_info_rb8.pdf
Slade, M, Thornicroft, G, Loftus, L, Phelan, M & Wykes, T 1999 CAN: Camberwell Assessment of Need
– A Comprehensive Needs Assessment Tool for People with Severe Mental Illness, Gaskell London,
London.
Social Care Institute for Excellence 2011, ‘Questions’ in ‘Module 1: Sexual Health Matters – For
Mental Health’ e-Learning: Sexual, Reproductive and Mental Health, viewed 7 July 2015,
http://www.scie.org.uk/assets/elearning/sexualhealth/Web/Object1/assets/common/extra/sh_mod
ule_1_questions_sec3.pdf
Tenille, J & Wright, E 2013, Addressing the Intimacy Interests of People with Mental Health
Conditions: Acknowledging Consumer Desires, Provider Discomforts, and System Denial, Temple
University Collaborative on Community Inclusion of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities,
Philadelphia, viewed 7 July 2015,
http://tucollaborative.org/pdfs/Toolkits_Monographs_Guidebooks/relationships_family_friends_inti
macy/intimacy.pdf
Vant Sant, S, Ahmed, A & Buckley, P 2012 ‘Schizophrenia, Sexuality, and Recovery’ Journal of Ethics
in Mental Health, vol. 7 (special), pp. 1-5, viewed 7 July 2015,
http://www.jemh.ca/issues/v7/documents/JEMH_Vol7SchizophreniaSexualityandRecovery.pdf