Consumers/survivors/ex-patients as change facilitators.
The expertise gleaned from being a patient in a psychiatric hospital is used to train hospital staff in what is helpful to patients and what hurts. The trainers are consumers/survivors/ex-patients in different stages of recovery.
New York State Office of Mental Health in Albany, New York, USA.
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D001294:Attitude to Health; D006760:Hospitalization; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000592:standards; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D000078329:Workforce