Beyond Involvement: Looking for a Common Perspective on Roles in Research

Handbook of Service User Involvement in Mental Health Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 61-72

  Russo, Jasna ^a   Stastny, Peter ^b  

^a European Network of (ex) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry   (Germany)

^b South Beach Psychiatric Centre   (United States)

Author keywords

Common role being useful; Final role growing out of collaboration; First, the ideal, the common and the final role for users survivors in research Jasna's perception of collaborations with academics; Ideal role making substantial change; Looking for common perspective on roles in research; Motivating forces and the counterpunch; Research as tool to foster change in systems highly resistant to progress and transformation; Towards true research partnerships

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937401779     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470743157.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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