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Body Mapping and Youth Experiencing Psychosis

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This chapter reports on the Keeping the Body in Mind body mapping project in which young people with psychosis created body maps to reflect upon, and creatively represent, the relationship between mental and physical health. Body mapping is an arts-based method ideally suited to equitable, participant-led research processes and which has the potential to foster social inclusion. In this project, increased social inclusion was evident during both the research creation and dissemination stages. Using Lundy’s framework for the participation of children and young people, this chapter explores how the project supported social inclusion via deep engagement with the views and voice of research participants.

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    Priya Vaughan & Katherine M. Boydell

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Vaughan, P., de Jager, A., Boydell, K.M. (2021). Body Mapping and Youth Experiencing Psychosis. In: Liamputtong, P. (eds) Handbook of Social Inclusion. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48277-0_63-1

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