BackgroundService user (patient) involvement in care planning is a principle enshrined by
mental health policy yet often attracts criticism from patients and carers in practice. AimsTo …

Background and purpose: Service user involvement is a recognised value and goal within
mental health and substance abuse work. According to previous studies, however, client …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief overview of the literature to date
which has focused on co-production within mental healthcare in the UK, including service …

Many young people who engage in self-harm do not seek help from health services. For
those that do, emergency departments (EDs) are a key point of contact. Substantial gaps …

Multidisciplinary team functioning and decision making within forensic mental health | Emerald
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Although user involvement has been the vision of mental health care for the last decades,
there are indications of this vision remaining as rhetoric rather than reality in many clinical …

Exposure to violence, vulnerability due to lack of shelter, alienation due to stigma, the
experiences of severe mental illness (SMI) and subsequent institutionalization, make …

In the previous chapter I introduced the dominant understanding of depression and its
critiques. Yet, I have seen psychiatric discourses as mostly 'transparent'(even though subject …

Background: It is increasingly argued that mental health service users should be consulted
to determine the outcomes of treatment they prioritise, and the elements of treatment they …

A qualitative study of inpatients' perspectives on what it means to be involved in their own
care, and providers' experiences with encouraging user involvement in care planning and …