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- Title
User Involvement: What is the point?
- Authors
Duncan, Birgit
- Abstract
The article contemplates on the significance of service user or patient involvement in mental health services and interventions in Great Britain. It states that the involvement of user in interventions began in 1960s wherein poet John Clare was the first one to gain from it during the 22 years he spent in Saint Andrews asylum in Northampton, England. It states that mental health services with user involvement has more superiority and are better than professional treatment alone. It cites the advocacy and campaigns of Clare to make reforms to lunacy laws and user involvement through The Alleged Lunatic's Friend Society. The author highly suggests the need to involve users or patients in mental health interventions because of they have more experiences than the staffs.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; PATIENT participation; MENTAL health personnel &; patient; MENTAL health services; MENTAL health; CLARE, John, 1793-1864; CARE of people with intellectual disabilities; MENTAL health laws; INTELLECTUAL disabilities; THERAPEUTICS; SOCIETIES
- Publication
Mental Health Occupational Therapy, 2010, Vol 15, Issue 2, p58
- ISSN
1363-4682
- Publication type
Article