title: Collaboration and partnership: nursing education and self-help groups.
abstract: Development of a collaborative partnership between a mental health psychiatric nursing course and Recovery Incorporated, a self-help group, is described. Baccalaureate nursing students' reactions to their clinical experience as participant observers are examined. Through collaboration, a partnership developed that afforded students an appreciation of the role of self-help groups in supporting mental health, awareness of consumer responsibility for decision making. This partnership also fostered increased openness to diversity.
authors.affiliation: Concordia University & West Suburban College of Nursing, Oak Park, IL, USA.
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Snyder
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Weyer
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D012657:Self-Help Groups / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013338:Students, Nursing; D013663:Teaching