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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 strengthen employability. On this page, you can find all the latest news about the project and learn about its progress. Don't miss it!

MAP Good Practices Manual

The MAP best practices manual, which captures all the results of the work carried out in Madrid and Rome, is now available.


This manual is the result of the 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 in order to achieve it, taking control of their lives, ceasing to be passive subjects in society.


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Cómo hemos avanzado

PRESENTATION OF MAP PROJECT RESULTS

The MAP project is coming to an end, and we've already held the event where we presented the results of these months of work. At the event, we were able to hear from 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 working groups and how important autonomy is in the recovery process.

Watch the video of the event

Video conclusions of the project

With MAP finished, we did a A review with Joseba Rico and Laura Ruiz, AMAFE's European project managers, about their experience over these past few months and how MAP has developed. Watch the video!

The development of focus groups

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

Un grupo de discusión es una técnica de investigación cualitativa utilizada en ciencias sociales y marketing para recopilar datos.

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

During the focus group session, participants express their opinions, experiences, and perceptions on the topic at hand, and the exchange of ideas among them is encouraged.

How a focus group works

What groups have we made?

  • Employment and autonomy

     

  • Families


  • Mental health promotion


  • Gender



  • Media


Some experiences of participants


Study visits

Madrid, 2024

During the week of March 11, 2024, Club Ítaca Roma traveled to Madrid to learn firsthand about the work we do at AMAFE in the area of autonomy, jointly developing the focus group methodology, an exchange of experiences in which first-person voices, family members and professionals have participated over the past few months and which is giving rise to the manual of good practices that will be published and presented at an event to be held in Madrid in May 2024.

First Studio Visit

Rome, January 2023

During the week of January 23, AMAFE traveled to Rome to learn firsthand about the work Club Ítaca Roma is doing in the area of autonomy, jointly developing the focus group methodology, an exchange of experiences involving first-person voices, family members, and professionals. This will lead to the development of a manual of good practices to be published and presented at an event to be held in Madrid in 2024.


These groups will be held in both Rome and Madrid, with a total of twelve working sessions and six different topics that will address, among others, the importance of work and daily structure, and addressing social stigma. These groups will be held in Madrid and Rome and will be supported by European funding from the Erasmus program.

La información recopilada en los grupos de discusión permite comprender mejor las actitudes, opiniones y motivaciones de los participantes en relación con el tema del estudio.

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The Mental Health Autonomy Project is co-funded by the European Union's Erasmus program. The content of this website is the sole responsibility of AMAFE, and neither the European Commission nor the Spanish Service for the Internationalization of Education (SEPIE) are responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained herein.

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