Consumer Perspective I’ll try to get to some sort of nuanced academic understanding of this term, but I’ll just start with simplicity. A Consumer Perspective is the ‘perspective’ of, or how the social world looks to, ‘consumers’ or people using or being provided services or product (voluntarily or otherwise) by…
Many years ago, I was asked to speak at a planning day for a service at which I had just started. I was asked to give a ‘consumer assessment’ of the service. I guess they wanted a reasoned point-form description from a consumer perspective which could be folded into the…
. There are sometimes differences in ‘Worldview’ when it comes to interpreting the terms above, especially in the context of the Certificate 4 in Mental Health Peer Work’. In the context of The Cert IV in Peer Work, the term ‘Peer work’ was the one, at the time, and still…
I’ve always liked a particular old American Western song. It pitted ultimate evil against some tough old birds, and the right side won. Click here for the original song“Tying A Knot In The Devil’s Tail” So, I penned a local adaptation because I need to believe the right side can…
What’s in a name? What you call complicated. I call plain language, who can say? Plain Language is NOT ‘plain language’. What is ‘plain language’ may in fact be partly dependant one one’s background. Plain Language with the capitals is a movement to reform written communication strategies dating at least…
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Me I have been hanging around the Consumer Participation/Consumer Worker/Peer Worker/Lived Experience/Lived and Living Experience profession here in Melbourne, Australia since the late ’90s. I’ve worked at consumer organisations, big hospitals and many places in between, in peer support, independent advocacy and systemic work. However the stuff you see on…
THE PROBLEM When we get a diagnosis we also get a whole new identity. Instead of students, or workers or parents, or teenagers, we are now ‘consumers’, ‘people with mental illness’ Efforts at ‘psychoeducation’ and development of ‘insight’ into what changes are required to maintain recovery – pills, a permanent…
Leavings of a Life Lived in LLEW Welcome I have been hanging around the ‘Lived and Living Experience Workforce’ in Victoria, Australia for a while. I’ve worked in numerous health services for some decades and throiugh a bunch of name changes – Consumer Participation/Consumer Worker/Peer Worker/Lived Experience/Lived and Living Experience….
