Principles and Motives for Service User Involvement in Mental Health Research

Handbook of Service User Involvement in Mental Health Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 13-24

  Faulkner, Alison ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benefits and challenges; Contributing to design and methods; Greater satisfaction and enjoyment from research with service users in forensic mental health field; Meeting people valued for the opportunity of meeting people and making new friends or colleagues; Motives and incentives; Negotiating difference interpersonal issues creating greatest barriers; Policy guidelines encouraged involvement of service users (and carers) as active participants; Service user involvement in research principles and motives; Service users in service delivery and planning, training, policy or research motivated by desire to improve services; User involvement in research process leading to generation of new and more in depth knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883704355     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470743157.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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