Service User and Carer Involvement in Education for Health and Social Care

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 Engagement Project: Comensus. 7 Climbing the Ladder of Involvement: A Manager’s 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 The Community Involvement Team. Appendix 7: Year 3 Issues and Solutions. Appendix 8: Protocol for the Development of Learning Resources Involving Service Users and/or Carers. Appendix 9: Service User/Carer/Public Consent Form. Index.