Keeping Control

What to do if you have experienced abuse or hate crime

Resources for mental health service users and survivors

These resources are for anyone who has experienced abuse, victimisation or hate crime directed at them because of their mental distress or psychiatric diagnosis. They are based on research carried out at Middlesex University. The aim is to share some of our research findings with you and to give you ideas and suggestions about what you can do if you have experienced this kind of abuse.

Listen to interviews

Alison Faulkner:

 

Sarah Carr:

Tina Coldham:

Christine Khisa: 

Ian Loynes: 

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Read the report

By Alison Faulkner. Available in English, Urdu, Gujarati, Arabic, and Bengali. An easy-read version is also available.

We have organised the report in four parts:

• What people told us
• What people found helpful
• What you can do if you have experienced abuse or believe you have been a victim of hate crime
• Sources of help
  

Download the report

English (for a plaintext version click here)

Gujarati (for a plaintext version click here)

Arabic (for a plaintext version click here)

Urdu (for a plaintext version click here)

Bengali (for a plaintext version click here)

Easy-read (for a Microsoft Word version click here)

More about Keeping Control:

This report is based on research carried out at Middlesex University by Dr Sarah Carr, Dr Trish Hafford-Lechfield, Dr Alison Faulkner, Dorothy Gould, Christine Khisa, Claudia Megele, Rachel Cohen. Research papers published from this research can be found at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hex.12963 and https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/hsc.12806

It is based on independent research funded by the National Institute for Health Research School for Social Care Research (NIHR SSCR).