Older consumers’ participation in the planning and delivery of mental health care: A collaborative service development project

Evaluation of Consumer Participation Demonstration Projects in Five Australian Drug User Treatment Facilities: The Impact of Individual Versus Organizational Stability in Determining Project Progress

“…The literature provides useful discussion of the issues to consider regarding the design and implementation of consumer participation in a range of health services and settings (Cleary, Freeman, & Walter, 2006;Fortune, Maguire, & Carr, 2007;Hassett, Fortune, & Smith, 2007;Schauer, Everett, del Vecchio, & Anderson, 2007). However, there is limited literature evaluating the implementation of consumer participation initiatives (Crawford et al, 2002) and consequently effective methods to achieve consumer participation remain underexplored (Ottmann, Laragy, & Damonze, 2009).…”

The Concept of Oppression and Occupational Therapy: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis

“…Such "macro" level structures influence "meso" levels, shaping policy and organizations. Within the selected studies, the authors examine such institutional processes as welfare policies (Boland & Cunningham, 2019), paternalistic organizational practices with older mental health consumers (Fortune et al, 2007), and funding mechanisms that mandate individual responsibility for "productive aging" (Laliberte Rudman & Molke, 2009).…”

“…Within the profession, therapists are urged to promote respectful interactions by challenging oppressive assumptions (Chacala et al, 2014;Howarth & Jones, 1999;Townsend et al, 2000), ensuring they are not reinforcing stereotypes (Alden & Toth-Cohen, 2015;Beagan & Etowa, 2009;Steed, 2014), and creating student experiences that disrupt social norms (Stewart et al, 2005). Therapists and scholars are pressed to address oppression embedded in policy (Howarth & Jones, 1999), data collection (Beagan & Fredericks, 2018;Stewart et al, 2005), written texts (Laliberte Rudman & Molke, 2009), assessment tools (Jong et al, 2012), evaluation frameworks (Fortune et al, 2007), and dominant professional epistemologies (Gerlach, 2008;Nicholls & Elliot, 2019). Compared to the wide-ranging scope of recommendations, the selected articles describing actual changes denote relatively small initiatives such as creating a research group in a mental health day program (Townsend et al, 2000), advocacy work with senior citizens (Trentham & Neysmith, 2018), and implementing education programs for current/future therapists (Alden & Toth-Cohen, 2015;Steed, 2014).…”