Service Users as Paid Research Workers: Principles for Active Involvement and Good Practice Guidance

Handbook of Service User Involvement in Mental Health Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 139-151

  Delman, Jonathan ^a   Lincoln, Alisa ^b  

^a Consumer Quality Initiatives Inc ^*  (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active service user involvement benefits; Dissemination, translation to policy and practice; Quality and relevance of research; Self stigmatizing views of SURs; Senior researchers and SURs committed to active SUR involvement and learning about other's perspective; Service user skill development; Service users as paid research workers; Service users working in academic and other institutional settings major asset to team and research itself; Unsteady feelings service users have working in academia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84936988900     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470743157.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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