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Integrating a youth participation model in a youth mental health service: Challenges and lessons learned
- Source :
- Child & Youth Services. 37:287-300
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2016.
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Abstract
- © 2016 Crown copyright. Youth participation in mental health settings is fundamental to service design and delivery, and is beneficial for the young people involved as well as the organisation. This paper presents the findings of an evaluation of a youth participation model where tiered participation was attempted in a clinical youth mental health setting. To inform the ongoing development and improvement of a youth participation model, an evaluation was conducted consisting of three focus groups with the youth consultants, consultations with management about the implementation of the tiered participation model, and a review of records. The purpose of this evaluation was to identify possible barriers to implementation early on so these could be addressed and a youth participation model that meets the needs of all key stakeholders could be developed. The findings of this evaluation and the way in which these findings informed the model's development are discussed.
- Subjects :
- Health (social science)
business.industry
Service design
05 social sciences
Youth participation
Public relations
Mental health
Focus group
1117 Public Health and Health Services
Mental health service
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
030212 general & internal medicine
Consumer participation
business
Psychology
Positive Youth Development
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
050104 developmental & child psychology
Service development
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15452298 and 0145935X
- Volume :
- 37
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Child & Youth Services
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2673bdf394c71a13e9251bc1ca0216e1