Service user and carer involvement in health and social care education

This book is unique in that it will appeal to practitioners, policy makers, and commissioners in health and social care practice and education who buy in to the principles of service user engagement, but who find it hard to know how to progress the practicalities. Based on the set up and running of the unique and very successful Comensus project, this practical and accessible text will provide a framework for building authentic and sustainable community engagement in health and social care education and practice INDICE: Promoting Partnership for Health. The Comensus Writing Collective:Notes on Authorship. Notes on Language. Introduction. Part I: The Context. 1 Service User and Carer Involvement in Higher Education. 2 The Social and Political Context. 3 Beyond the Campus: Universities, Community Engagement and Social Enterprise. 4 Research and Evaluation of Service Users and Carers Involvement in Health Professional Education. 5 What Counts Cannot be Counted: Community Engagement as a Catalyst for Emotional Intelligence. Part II: Personal Experiences: The Case of Comensus. 6 Setting up a Service User and Carer EngagementProject: Comensus. 7 Climbing the Ladder of Involvement: A Managers Perspective. 8 Stories of Engagement. 9 Making Sense of Involvement in Comensus. 10 Shedding Masks: Transitions in Mental Health and Education, a Personal View. Conclusions. References. Appendices. Appendix 1: Research and Evaluation Planning Worksheet. Appendix 2: Terms of Reference for Comensus Advisory Group. Appendix 3: Year One Issues and Solutions. Appendix 4: Terms of Reference for CIT. Appendix 5: COMENSUS: Action Plan 2009. Appendix 6: Year Three Sub-Groups of TheCommunity Involvement Team. Appendix 7: Year 3 Issues and Solutions. Appendix8: Protocol for the Development of Learning Resources Involving Service Usersand/or Carers. Appendix 9: Service User/Carer/Public Consent Form. Index.

• ISBN: 978-1-4051-8432-8
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 264
• Fecha Publicación: 02/07/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés