The Employment of Consumers in Mental Health Services: Politically Correct Tokenism or Genuinely Useful?-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The Employment of Consumers in Mental Health Services: Politically Correct Tokenism or Genuinely Useful?

Published:2008-01-01 Issue:5 Volume:16 Page:344-347
ISSN:1039-8562
Container-title:Australasian Psychiatry
language:en
Short-container-title:Australas Psychiatry

Author:

Nestor Paul¹,Galletly Cherrie²

Affiliation:

1. Mental Health Services, Central Northern Adelaide Health Service, Salisbury, SA, Australia

2. Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Abstract

Objective: The aim of this paper is to examine the role of consumers as service providers and to describe the successful employment of peer support workers in a public mental health service. Conclusions: The Peer Support Worker program in Adelaide, South Australia is consistent with evidence obtained from previous research in demonstrating the successful training and employment of consumers as peer workers in a public mental health service.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Psychiatry and Mental health

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10398560802196016

Reference22 articles.

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2. 'Consumer consultant': Expanding the role of consumers in modern mental health services

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4. Adding Consumer-Providers to Intensive Case Management: Does It Improve Outcome?

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