Promoting recovery-oriented mental health nursing practice through consumer participation in mental health nursing education

Abstract

Consumer participation can contribute positively to nurse education, however representativeness presents a major barrier, potentially enabling nurses to dismiss experiences of consumer academics and educators as exceptional rather than typical.

Changing attitudes: The impact of Expert by Experience involvement in Mental Health Nursing Education: An international survey study

“…Contemporary policy and clinical standards place significant demands on those entering the nursing workforce to be familiar with, value and use recovery‐focused mental health nursing practice (Happell et al . ). For instance, despite much discourse on recovery, mental health nursing in practice often remains ‘impersonal, custody and containment focused' (Cutcliffe et al .…”

The impact of an undergraduate students' culture on their learning about mental health: A scoping review

“…Established approaches to learning about mental health, such as findings of the effectiveness of Experts by Experience (Happell, Bennetts, et al, 2019; Happell, Waks, et al, 2019) and experiential approaches inclusive of simulation (Hall, 2017; Treloar et al, 2019) and clinical placement (Lim et al, 2020; Spence et al, 2019) may be applicable in this cultural context too. Further research into examining the efficacy of these approaches to learning about mental health in relation to the diversity of cultural backgrounds in classrooms needs to be better understood by further study.…”

Gender diversity in the Journal of Mental Health – how are we doing and what do we need to do?

“…Gender diversity is importantwomen are half the worldbut it is not the only type of diversity we need to consider there is also ethnicity and now that gender is not a binary concept it is harder to identify this author attribute via publication. The JMH has emphasised the inclusion of people who use mental health services as authors (Byrne et al, 2019;Pinfold et al, 2019;Robertson et al, 2019;Robotham et al, 2016;Webber et al, 2014) and we have been successful on our editorial board, in our editorials (Carr, 2020;Sweeney & Taggart, 2018;Wykes et al, 2019) and in the types of research we accept (Farr et al, 2019;Happell et al, 2019b;Happell et al, 2019a;McCabe et al, 2018;Mulfinger et al, 2019). We want to continue to encourage these papers and particularly those led by service users.…”