... service users and mental health care professionals (MHPs). Design/methodology/approach The authors used a focus group discussion approach to evaluate the outcomes of a brief four-hour CHIME Framework training. The study sample consisted of eight individuals (four service users and four mental health...

...Meadhbh Campbell; Charlotte Wilson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore mental health service users’ experiences of involvement in a clinical psychology course. Design/methodology/approach Five participants were recruited from a service user and carer group aligned to a university...

... health unit. This case study aims to describe how the integration of concepts from the 4Pi National Involvement Standards (Principles, Purpose, Presence, Process and Impact) provided a framework for engaging and involving service users. The case study also aims to describe how co-design was included...

... – A self-management and peer support intervention was developed and delivered by secondary mental health service users to 262 people with psychiatric diagnoses living in the community. Data on wellbeing and health-promoting behaviour were collected at three time points (baseline, six, and 12 months...

... – Using a case study approach the paper outlines how a Third sector organisation supported the study team in setting up a Lived Experience Advisory Panel (LEAP), drawing on a pre-existing model and recent thinking about service user and carer involvement in research. It is described how the approach...

... Limited 2012 Self‐management Peer support Recovery Mental ill‐health Service users Mental health services United Kingdom Self‐management in general refers to the methods, skills, and strategies by which individuals can effectively manage their own activities towards...

...Robin Ion; Sue Cowan; Ron Lindsay The notion of mental health service user involvement in curriculum design and delivery has become commonplace over recent years. However, concern has been expressed that the rhetoric has not matched the reality. In particular, service user involvement has tended...

...Hugh Masters; Susanne Forrest Mental health service user involvement in education has gained momentum and prominence over the past decade, but service user involvement in the assessment of students' practice remains underdeveloped. This paper reports findings from a qualitative analysis...

... Capabilities (Hope, 2004). The tool comprised three parts, a team questionnaire, a service user questionnaire, and a Care Programme Approach (CPA) care plan documentation analysis (see previous paper on pp31‐41). This paper focuses on piloting the tool with mental health teams within Sussex Partnership NHS...

... amount of research exists concerning ways to evaluate socially inclusive practice within mental health services. The paper describes the creation of a tripartite tool to access the views of mental health teams who work with service users, and the service users themselves. As part of the movement towards...

...Marjorie Lloyd Service user involvement is a growing and important trend in the whole of health and social care and yet when asked, it is difficult to define. Simply inviting service users and carers along to meetings can lead to tokenism and a tick box mentality towards user and carer involvement...

... an overview of the NWW CAMHS project using two of the 10 early implementer sites as examples. General lessons from the project are explored. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 New Ways of Working (NWW) Child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) Workforce Service users 24‐hour...

...Anna Tickle; Clark Davison The training of future mental health professionals offers one avenue of change to improve service user and carer involvement in mental health services. This study looked at experiences of trainees on the University of Surrey's Clinical Psychology Doctorate programme...

...Tushna Vandrevala; Mark Hayward; Jane Willis; Mary John National policies suggest that service users and carers should be involved in health care planning and delivery. Initiatives to involve service users and carers within the education of mental health professionals have been reported. However...