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Learn how MAP is progressing

The Mental Health Autonomy Project, led by AMAFE and with Club Ítaca Roma as a collaborating partner, aims to facilitate access to and maintenance of independent living, as well as strengthening employability. On this page you can find updated news regarding the project and learn about all its progress. Don't miss them!

MAP good practices manual

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 independentlywithout 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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How we have progressed

PRESENTATION OF MAP PROJECT RESULTS

The MAP project is coming to an end and we have already held the event in which we presented the results of these months of work. At the event we were able to hear Mr. Mariano Hernández, psychiatrist and former president of the AEN, and Mateo Gualdaroni and Bárbara López, participants in the project who They gave a good account of the development of the work groups and how important autonomy is in the recovery process.

See the video of the event

Video conclusions of the project

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

The development of focus groups

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 insights and exploring subjective aspects that may be difficult to capture with quantitative methods.

A focus group is a qualitative research technique used in social sciences and marketing to collect data.

A small group of people (who share similar demographic characteristics or experiences) meet to discuss and analyze specific topics under the guidance of a moderator.

During the focus group session, participants express their opinions, experiences and perceptions on the topic in question, and the exchange of ideas between them is encouraged.

How a focus group works

What groups have we made?

  • Employment and autonomy

     

  • Families


  • Mental health promotion


  • Gender


  • Intervention models


  • Media


Some experiences of participants


Study visits

Madrid, 2024

During the week of March 11, 2024, Club Ítaca Roma has traveled to Madrid to learn first-hand about the work we do at AMAFE in terms of autonomy, jointly developing the focus group methodology, an exchange of experiences in which First-person voices, family members and professionals, have participated during these months and are giving rise to the manual of good practices that will be published and presented at an event that will take place in Madrid in May 2024.

First Studio Visit

Rome, January 2023

During the week of January 23, AMAFE traveled to Rome to learn first-hand about the work carried out by Club Ítaca Roma in terms of autonomy, jointly developing the focus group methodology, an exchange of experiences in which first-party voices will participate. person, family members and professionals and which will lead to the development of a manual of good practices that will be published and presented at an event that will take place in Madrid in 2024.


These groups will take place in both Rome and Madrid with a total of twelve work sessions and six different topics that will address, among others, the importance of work and daily structure or addressing social stigma. These groups will take place in Madrid and Rome and will be carried out thanks to the provision of European funds from the Erasmus program.

The information collected in the focus groups allows us to better understand the attitudes, opinions and motivations of the participants in relation to the topic of the study.

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