1. Social workers with lived experience of mental health concerns: perspectives of U.S. social work education leaders.
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Holley, Lynn C., Kondrat, David C., and Charles, Jennifer L. K.
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WORK , *SOCIAL workers , *MENTAL health services , *MENTAL illness , *HUMAN research subjects , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *FISHER exact test , *SOCIAL work education , *QUANTITATIVE research , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *EXPERIENCE , *COLLEGE teacher attitudes , *RESEARCH , *CONCEPTUAL structures , *INFORMED consent (Medical law) , *DISCRIMINATION (Sociology) , *DATA analysis software , *EXPERIENTIAL learning , *SOCIAL stigma - Abstract
Professionals with lived experience (LE) of mental distress might better understand service users, educate colleagues, and serve as role models. This exploratory quantitative study asked U.S. social work education leaders if they perceive positives and negatives of professionals having LE; what advice they would offer students with LE; and analyzed whether certain experiences influenced responses. Having LE and/or close relationships with people with LE was associated with perceiving positives, which was associated with advising students about using LE to help others. Perceiving negatives was associated with advising about difficulties. Implications are offered for preparing professionals to use LE in practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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