Authors: Peter Huxley and Sherrill Evans, Swansea, UK
Year: 2007
Event: 2007 TheMHS Conference
Subject: Social inclusion and community, EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE, AND OUTCOME RESEARCH, RESEARCH, EVALUATION, QUALITY IMPROVEMENT.MENTAL HEALTH, SOCIAL INCLUSION, CONCEPT MAPPING
Type of resource: Conference Presentations and Papers
ISBN: 9780975765333
Abstract: Mental health service users are among the most socially excluded of all groups. A major aim of services should be to promote social inclusion, but how is inclusion to be defined? This paper aims to report on a concept mapping exercise undertaken with 9 different groups including mental health service users, professionals, lay people, students and mixed groups. More than 60 people participated and they made over 400 statements about what social inclusion meant to them. We will describe the concept mapping techniques and the results of the exercise, compare the concept maps, and discuss the findings in the context of the current evidence base, and the implications for the development of an instrument to measure inclusion improvements.
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