Australian Mental Health Consumers' Contributions to the Evaluation and Improvement of Recovery-oriented Service Provision

作者：Marshall Sarah L^*; Oades Lindsay G; Crowe Trevor P

来源：Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences, 2010, 47(3): 198-205.

Background: One key component of recovery-oriented mental health services, typically overlooked, involves genuine collaboration between researchers and consumers to evaluate and improve services delivered within a recovery framework.
Method: Eighteen mental health consumers working with staff who had received training in the Collaborative Recovery Model (CRM) took part in in-depth focus group meetings, of approximately 2.5 hours each, to generate feedback to guide improvement of the CRM and its use in mental health services.
Results: Consumers identified clear avenues for improvement for the CRM both specific to the model and broadly applicable to recovery-oriented service provision. Findings suggest consumers want to be more engaged and empowered in the use of the CRM from the outset.
Limitations: Improved sampling procedures may have led to the identification of additional dissatisfied consumers.
Conclusions: Collaboration with mental health consumers in the evaluation and improvement of recovery-oriented practice is crucial with an emphasis on rebuilding mental health services that are genuinely oriented to support recovery.

• 出版日期2010