Integrating service user participation in mental health care: what will it take?

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span>Participation in mental health care poses many challenges for mental health service users and service providers. Consideration of these issues for improving the integration of service user participation in mental health c...

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Main Author: Sharon Lawn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2015-03-01
Series:International Journal of Integrated Care
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Online Access:http://www.ijic.org/articles/1992
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description <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span>Participation in mental health care poses many challenges for mental health service users and service providers. Consideration of these issues for improving the integration of service user participation in mental health care can help to inform integrated care within health care systems, broadly. This paper argues for practicing greater empathy and teaching it, stigma reduction, changing what we measure, valuing the intrinsic aspects of care more, employing more people with lived experience within mental health services, raising the visibility of service users as leaders and our teachers within services and redefining integrated care from the service user perspective.</span>
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Integrating service user participation in mental health care: what will it take?
International Journal of Integrated Care
service user participation, mental health care, definition of integrated care
title Integrating service user participation in mental health care: what will it take?
title_full Integrating service user participation in mental health care: what will it take?
title_fullStr Integrating service user participation in mental health care: what will it take?
title_full_unstemmed Integrating service user participation in mental health care: what will it take?
title_short Integrating service user participation in mental health care: what will it take?
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topic service user participation, mental health care, definition of integrated care
url http://www.ijic.org/articles/1992
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