Good practices manual

Good practices manual: the result of shared experiences

The MAP good practices manual in which all the results of the work carried out in Madrid and Rome have been reflected is now available.


This manual is the result of transnational exchange of experiences between people with lived experiences in mental health, their families and their professionals and seeks to promote the right of people with mental health problems to live autonomously and independently.without this condition implying discrimination or exclusion to achieve it, taking control of their lives, ceasing to be passive subjects in society.


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Some experiences and conclusions

Video conclusions of the project

With MAP completed, we reviewed with Joseba Rico and Laura Ruiz, responsible for AMAFE's European projects, their experience of these months of work and how MAP has been developed. Here we leave you the video!

Results presentation event

The MAP Project comes to an end and we present a preview of the results, collected in the conference we organized. Eighteen months of study and analysis that we will be able to materialize in a manual of good practices, which you can find above.

Focus group experiences

The focus groups have been the main protagonists of the project and thanks to which we have managed to obtain many of the data that are reflected in the manual. In this video you can see the experience of two people participating in them.

What has MAP consisted of?

A project to improve autonomy based on experiences

The project Mental Health Autonomy Project, led by AMAFE and with Progetto Ítaca Roma as a collaborating partner, has had The objective is to facilitate access to and maintenance of independent living, as well as to reinforce employability.. Finding a job and living independently are fundamental factors in a person's recovery process and, today, they are far from being covered.

The same objective from different visions

First person experiences

Each person is unique and each diagnosis and experience different. Therefore, it is important to have the voices of those who live firsthand what it means to have a mental health problem. The promotion of independent living and autonomy involves, without a doubt, giving a voice to the people involved in order to walk more strongly towards full citizenship.


Participation of professionals

The proposal of new approaches based on collaboration to act and prevent the development of mental health problems will improve professional practice and the effectiveness and efficiency of mental health services. Furthermore, methodological exchange, early interventions and the promotion of autonomy to avoid the chronification and stagnation of clinical and social problems are an important part of the MAP project.

The importance of families

The appearance of a mental health problem not only affects the person, but also the family and environment. In Spain and Italy, more than 80% of care and support tasks are carried out by informal caregivers, but despite this, the support and information needs for families are barely taken into account.

The development of focus groups: key in writing the good practices manual

Focus groups are a unique window to capture the complexity of individual voices and discover emerging patterns, and in them we bring together a small team to discuss ideas, share experiences and delve deeper into specific topics, generating diverse voices to provide different valuable insights. This technique is useful for obtaining qualitative perspectives and exploring subjective aspects that may be difficult to capture with quantitative methods.

The Mental health Autonomy Project is co-financed by the European Union's Erasmus program. The content of this website is the exclusive responsibility of AMAFE and neither the European Commission nor the Spanish Service for the Internationalization of Education (SEPIE) are responsible for the use that may be made of the information disseminated here.

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