Listening and Responding - Involving Service Users and Carers in Mental Health Care Module

The aim of this module is to critically examine the involvement and roles of service users and carers in mental health service delivery and to develop practitioners with expertise to implement strategies to achieve this aim.
Key lectures deliver core content, providing students with the opportunity to acquire knowledge related to user and carer involvement. This is complemented by seminars, tutorials and group discussions which are used to facilitate individual and group learning focused to enable students to apply this learning to their own role and service, examining the evidence base and theoretical approaches to service user and carer involvement. This will include contextualising current provision including multi-agency, multi-professional and partnership working within a multi-cultural society.
Directed study enables students to be guided in their reading and learning, and to develop their own portfolio of learning to enhance transferable skills and knowledge relating to evaluation of own role and communication skills. A VLE is used to provide access to online resources, lecture notes and external links to information.