The user’s voice – experiences of feeling or not feeling respected during psychiatric hospitalisation: inpatient views
2006 Conference
User-led research: an example of good practice
This presentation is about a piece of research which was part of a postgraduate degree supervised at Roehampton University in 2005. Eleven people who had been psychiatric inpatients were asked to talk about their experiences of feeling or not feeling respected during their time in hospital.
The research was designed, and interviews were carried out, by someone who had herself experienced a period of psychiatric hospitalisation. The people who were interviewed knew about this when they volunteered to take part in the study.
Audrey and Patti will first talk about the research and then discuss some of the quality issues which arise in designing and carrying out user-led research. They will then consider the ways in which the research has affected the people involved in it, and outline some of the changes which have happened as a result of the project.
Authors
Gachen ~ Audrey
Researcher, MIND, Kingstonlnbr Audrey Gachen is a mental health service-user researcher, an experienced and accredited psychological counsellor working in the NHS and independent practice and a mental-health awareness facilitator for MIND. She is actively involved in empowering service-users to voice their experiences and in disseminating that data to inform and improve service delivery.
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Principal Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy, Roehampton University. Patti Wallace is a psychologist, psychotherapist and counsellor with 30 years experience of clinical practice, service management, supervision and training. She now teaches and supervises the research of postgraduate counsellors and counselling psychologists. Her particular interest is in user-led research and in research which impacts directly on service delivery.
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