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Service user involvement: enriching the learning experience
- Authors:
- LECKEY Jill, WALTERS Phil, HOLT Barrie
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 5(1), April 2008, pp.35-49.
- Publisher:
- South West Yorkshire Mental Health NHS Trust and University of Huddersfield
This paper purports that by virtue of the service user’s experience of mental distress and service provision, they offer valuable knowledge and expertise to enrich the mental health nursing students learning experience collaboratively. This paper considers a historical perspective of the issues, shares some positive examples of good practice around involvement and inclusion considering the conflicting tensions that became complementary and how this helped, in developing an enriching learning experience.
See with your mind
- Author:
- ROWLING Edwina
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, April 2008, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The author profiles the Experience in Mind (EiM)group, innovatory training project on young people's mental health devised and led by young people. EiM is a partnership between Mind in Brighton and Hove and Hove YMCA.
The real mental health experts
- Author:
- ROWNTREE Nancy
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Young People Now, 16.7.09, 2009, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Haymarket Business Publications Ltd
In the Experience in Mind project young people draw on their own experiences of mental health problems, design training for professionals and then deliver the sessions themselves. This article discusses why the Young Minds project is needed. Four young volunteers also describe their involvement in the project.
It's not only about flower arranging...
- Authors:
- PEDEN Kate, HALL Sandra
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 11(3), August 2007, pp.27-29.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The authors describe the making of a multimedia resource to promote the benefits of learning for people with mental health difficulties, in which service users themselves played a key role. The resource was jointly funded by NIACE, LSC and NIMHE.
Port in a storm
- Author:
- GEORGE Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, March 2007, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The author visits Kaya House in north London, the first ever crisis house run by and for service users. All staff receive three weeks basic training.
Acute solutions and beyond: lessons on service users involvement
- Author:
- LEA Laura
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health Workforce Development, 1(2), 2006, pp.34-37.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This article describes how service user involvement at all levels can offer a different route for the provision of good quality care for people experiencing mental distress. Taking examples of service users involvement in the acute solutions project, from the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, the paper demonstrates how effective involvement can bring about measurable change in service provision and patient satisfaction. Examining the benefits, barriers to, and practicalities of service users involvement, it is argued that placing involvement at the centre offers solutions to the persistent problems found in mental health services. Workers who value and facilitate effective service user involvement enable social inclusion, change service users' status and enrich their own lives and practice.
An exploration of service user and practitioner experiences of community treatment orders
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH. School for Social Care Research
- Publisher:
- NIHR School for Social Care Research
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 4
- Place of publication:
- London
Summarises the findings of a research study exploring service user and practitioner experiences of community treatment orders (CTOs) in the Sussex Partnership NHS Trust area, within a policy context of person-centred care that aims to provide service users with increased autonomy and choice. A case study method was used in relation to CTOs in the trust area and included quantitative analysis of trust data and semi-structured qualitative interviews with 72 participants including service users, nearest relatives, care coordinators, responsible clinicians, approved mental health professionals and service (accommodation) providers. The study findings suggest CTOs can be effective for the ‘right’ service user with certain needs and perceptions: for example, to work within clear boundaries. CTOs were perceived as more successful in teams where they were carefully planned over time as an appropriate intervention, rather than where they were made almost as a matter of course. The study indicates a number of specific ways in which CTOs could be better aligned with ethical practice and person-centred care. These include: full involvement of service users in all stages of the process; approved mental health professionals involvement as early as possible in any team discussions about the potential making of a CTO; avoiding decision-making around the making of the CTO taking place during a ward round since this can be a disempowering environment for the service user; nearest relatives to be involved where appropriate; and better information and training on CTOs to be provided to service users and providers. (Edited publisher abstract)
An exploration of service user and practitioner experiences of community treatment orders
- Authors:
- STROUD Julia, DOUGHTY Karolina, BANKS Laura
- Publisher:
- University of Brighton
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 97
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This research study investigates service user and practitioner experiences of community treatment orders (CTOs) within a climate of personalisation of services that aims to provide service users with increased autonomy and choice over their care. A CTO is the legislative power by which patients with mental health difficulties who are treated involuntarily in hospital can be discharged into the community but still remain subject to compulsory treatment. The CTO thus extends the setting for involuntary treatment from being exclusively confined to the hospital ward to the community. A case study method was used in relation to CTOs in the trust area and included quantitative analysis of trust data and semi-structured qualitative interviews with 72 participants including service users, nearest relatives, care coordinators, responsible clinicians, approved mental health professionals and service (accommodation) providers. The study findings suggest CTOs can be effective for the ‘right’ service user with certain needs and perceptions: for example, to work within clear boundaries. CTOs were perceived as more successful in teams where they were carefully planned over time as an appropriate intervention, rather than where they were made almost as a matter of course. The study indicates a number of specific ways in which CTOs could be better aligned with ethical practice and person-centred care. These include: full involvement of service users in all stages of the process; approved mental health professionals involvement as early as possible in any team discussions about the potential making of a CTO; avoiding decision-making around the making of the CTO taking place during a ward round since this can be a disempowering environment for the service user; nearest relatives to be involved where appropriate; and better information and training on CTOs to be provided to service users and providers. (Edited publisher abstract)
Self Help Services: helping people to help themselves
- Authors:
- LIDBETTER Nicky, BUNNELL Dawn
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 17(2), 2013, pp.76-81.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose – Self Help Services is a pioneering charity in how it champions personal experience of mental health and uses these experiences in the treatment of people living with common mental health problems – anxiety, depression, phobias, and low self-esteem issues. This paper aims to describe how the charity grew from one individual's journey with agoraphobia to being the main provider of primary care mental health services in the North West of England. Design/methodology/approach – The paper charts the growth of Self Help Services over time, with a particular focus on its employment of people with personal mental health problems. It describes the experiences of its founder and Chief Officer and includes case studies of a user of its e-therapy services and the charity's Informatics and Governance Lead. Findings – The case studies illustrate how the charity has grown in both size and success as a result of harnessing the skills and experience of large numbers of staff and volunteers living with a mental health problem. The case studies illustrate that, rather than being an issue, these personal experiences are vital tools in helping others work through their own difficulties. Originality/value – The paper provides a detailed overview of a charity which was unique when it was formed and now thrives as a result of its uniqueness. It provides other similar organisations with advice on lessons learnt along the way, and advice for individuals or groups looking to establish similar organisations.
Producing different analytical narratives, coproducing integrated analytical narrative: a qualitative study of UK detained mental health patient experience involving service user researchers
- Authors:
- GILLARD Steve, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 15(3), 2012, pp.239-254.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The active involvement of service users in the health and social care research process has become internationally widespread. The purpose of this study was to examine how knowledge produced by service user researchers might be different to that produced by conventional, university-based researchers. The study comprised a secondary analysis of qualitative interview data conducted in order to explore the lived experience of people detained under the UK Mental Health Act (2003). The interview transcripts were analysed by all members of the research team (3 mental health service users, 2 health services researchers, and 1 nursing researcher). The results were further analysed to explore the extent to which the different groups of researchers produced different interpretive narratives. The findings showed that the different groups articulated a range of situated analytical narratives on the detained patient experience. Through negotiating what each narrative meant in relation to the others, the study was able to coproduce an integrated analytical narrative that moved beyond what was already known about the detained patient experience. The article concludes that research involving mental health service user researchers can coproduce new knowledge that might usefully inform service improvement.