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Co-producing Psychiatric Education with Service User Educators: a Collective Autobiographical Case Study of the Meaning, Ethics, and Importance of Payment.

Sophie SoklaridisAlise de BieRachel Beth CooperKim McCulloughBrenda McGovernMichaela BederGail BellissimoTucker GordonSuze BerkhoutMark FefergradAndrew JohnsonCsilla KalocsaiSean KiddNancy McNaughtonCharlotte RingstedDavid WiljerSacha Agrawal
Published in: Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry (2019)
Paying mental health service user educators for their contributions is an ethical imperative for the authors. However, unless payment is accompanied by other forms of demonstrating respect, it aligns with organizational structures and practices, and it is connected to a larger goal of achieving social justice, the role of service users as legitimate knowers and educators and ultimately their impact on learners will be limited.
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