Service user/survivor involvement in mental health education and training : overcoming the barriers

Basset, Thurstine and Campbell, Peter and Anderson, Jill (2006) Service user/survivor involvement in mental health education and training : overcoming the barriers. Social Work Education, 25 (4). pp. 393-402. ISSN 1470-1227

Abstract

This article discusses 10 barriers to the involvement of service users/survivors in learning and teaching about mental health in higher education, suggesting ways of overcoming each. The paper is addressed to mental health trainers and educators, some of whom will be mental health service users/survivors. We have not looked at the involvement of carers/relatives in learning and teaching here. They also clearly have an important role to play and some of what we have written will have relevance to their involvement.