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Voice mapping: a guide to support voice hearing

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  • Rob Allison
  • Ruth Lafferty

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Voice hearing can lead to an admission to mental health services where the person distressed by voices encounter healthcare practitioners who, in their efforts to offer support, can struggle to know how to help. Voice hearing is about power, specifically relational power between the voice hearing person, their voices, and other people such as practitioners, and especially concerning decisions about what might be helpful. This can inhibit attempts to provide meaningful support. As such, in terms of understanding voices and related decision-making, ‘how’ decisions are made is arguably more important than ‘what’ those decisions are. That is, creating opportunities in which a person empowers themselves to make sense of and problem-solve their own voice hearing experience is more helpful than having this imparted on them by practitioners. Voice mapping is a method that can be utilised to place the voice hearing person central to this. This strengthens a person-centred approach for people to explore understanding and decision making regarding voices and to identify steps a person might want to take to change their voice hearing experience.

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  • Rob Allison & Ruth Lafferty, 2025. "Voice mapping: a guide to support voice hearing," Psychosis, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(4), pages 433-435, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpsyxx:v:17:y:2025:i:4:p:433-435
    DOI: 10.1080/17522439.2025.2492643
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