Now I have a voice: service user and carer involvement in clinical psychology training

Authors:
HOLTTUM Sue, et al
Journal article citation:
Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 15(4), 2011, pp.190-197.
Publisher:
Emerald

UK universities have only recently begun to address the need for a partnership with service users in higher education. This paper describes the challenges and rewards of service user and carer involvement in clinical psychology training as experienced in Canterbury Christ Church University. The aim of involvement is to ensure that trainee clinical psychologists understand the experiences and perspectives of mental health service users and their carers. Members of the service user and carer advisory group Salomons Advisory Group of Experts by Experience (SAGE) regularly take part in a variety of clinical psychology training sessions. Three members of SAGE describe their contributions to the work. The challenges of inclusion and specific approaches that are used to work with these challenges are explored. They require that everyone involved should fully acknowledge the social and historical barriers in order to work together to overcome them.

Subject terms:
higher education, mental health problems, psychology, service users, social inclusion, user participation, carers;
Content type:
practice example
Location(s):
United Kingdom
Link:
Journal home page
ISSN online:
2042-8308
ISSN print:
2042-8316

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