Sarah Carr examines a literature review on peer workers’ perceptions and experiences to the implementation of peer worker roles in mental health services, and finds some familiar themes.
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Diana Rose publishes her debut Mental Elf blog on a new qualitative study, which explores how contrasting and competing priorities work in mental health risk assessment and care planning.
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Lucy Simons considers the findings of an ethnographic study led by Diana Rose that observed in-depth how service user-led organisations work to change mental health services.
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John Baker presents a systematic review of preferences for medication-associated outcomes in mental disorders, which concludes that we just don’t know what value mental health service users place on the different outcomes that come from taking psychiatric medication.
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Alison Faulkner writes her debut Mental Elf blog about a new qualitative study, which explores how meaningful service user involvement can be integrated into the mental health care planning process.
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Sarah Carr takes a look at a new report from Research in Practice for Adults which uses evidence to reimagine social care.
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Katherine Runswick Cole looks at a small study which looks at what it means to act as self advocates to a group of adults with learning disabilities
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Amy Price and Douglas Badenoch respond to the McPin Foundation talking point paper written by Alison Faulkner entitled ‘Randomised controlled trials: The straitjacket of mental health research?’
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Sarah Carr finds out what an ‘evolutionary concept analysis’ has to say about service user involvement in mental health care.
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Martin Webber has a look at some Swedish research on user involvement through user advisory councils in mental health and substance misuse services.
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