title: User involvement in mental health branch education: client review presentations.
abstract: This paper will present the work of users, students and lecturers involved in the delivery of Mental Health pre-registration education, focusing on client assessment. Users from local mental health representative organizations, attend a series of college-based sessions to evaluate student's client review presentations, in which individual students explicitly and critically reflect upon a mental health assessment of a client in which they have participated. The user contributions are intended to raise student's awareness of client-centred perspectives, particularly in terms of the various possible interpretations that may be attributed to assessment data gathered about the client. The sessions seek to develop a learning approach, which will develop and consolidate a partnership in curriculum delivery between mental health service users and nursing education. This method of working has been evaluated by a previous study, and indicates that this method has an important influence on student's approaches to identifying clients needs and subsequent care delivery. This paper will focus on the organizational pre-requisites that are desirable, to implement this method of teaching and learning, including philosophical issues, contract arrangements, classroom activities, supervision, consideration of ethical dilemmas and reflective outcomes.
authors.affiliation: The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kings College London, James Clerk Maxwell Building, 57 Waterloo Rd, London SE1 8WA, UK.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Frisby
mesh_terms: D004521:Educational Measurement; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D008131:London; D008605:Mental Health Services; D010358:Patient Participation; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education*