New CentreMHN lived experience-led research published
We’re proud to share a new publication from the Centre for Mental Health Nursing (CentreMHN) Consumer Academic Program and collaborators, exploring how the mental health consumer lived experience workforce describes and enacts its discipline.
The narrative review examines the knowledge, practices, history and foundations that underpin the growing lived and living experience workforce, while also highlighting the importance of Indigenous knowledge, leadership and cultural practices.
A huge congratulations to Cath Roper, Nina Joffee-Kohn and everyone involved in the Consumer Academic Program, CentreMHN and the wider research team on this important contribution to the field.
What did the review find?
- Knowledge and practice - clear articulation of the knowledge and practices underpinning the discipline is essential to supporting a confident workforce and helping organisations establish and support these roles effectively.
- Indigenous knowledge and wellbeing - for Indigenous workers in designated lived experience roles, wellbeing and cultural practices cannot be separated from how the roles are carried out.
- Leadership and the future - embedding Indigenous leadership, knowledge and practices can strengthen the human rights, justice-based and non-clinical nature of lived experience roles and help guide future workforce and service development.
Congratulations to everyone involved in bringing this important work to publication.
