Tag: consumers
Collaboration with Consumers of Mental Health Services Improves Quality and Value...
A new study examines the benefits of collaborating with mental health consumers in research.
“The Angry Consumer”: Embracing Difficult Conversations
Judgments of the so-called āangry consumerā deeply reinforce divisions within mental health policy and services. The only way we can engage in meaningful co-production is not to gloss over histories of collective exclusion and disempowerment and all the pain and anger that goes with it, but rather to validate and work through difficult emotions.
The Outing of a Consumer
The problem with being a consumer is that we get consumed. Iāve been the bacon at far too many mental health picnics. Someoneās salary gets paid, someoneās program gets funded, someoneās career gets enhanced, someone gets accolades for being so altruistic and such a great savior ā and me, what do I get? Exposed, laid bare, and isolated.