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The perspectives of a service user academic and a psychiatric trainee on engagement in supervision

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2020

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M. Higgins
S. Gordon*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, 9054, New Zealand
M. Higgins
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, 9054, New Zealand
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*Address for correspondence: Sarah Gordon, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin9054, New Zealand. (Email: dr.sarah.gordon.nz@gmail.com)
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Abstract

This paper describes the perspectives of a service user academic and a psychiatric trainee in response to their engagement in service user supervision, now offered as part of our psychological medicine education, as a feature of an innovative service user-led, recovery and human rights focused, contact-based education programme. The supervision, being deliberately focused on exploring and addressing responsiveness to the traditionally underprivileged service user’s perspective, and hence vastly different to clinical supervision, was acknowledged by the trainee as being of distinct value, translating into changes in practice, particularly in terms of addressing power imbalances, enhancing communication with patients, supporting recovery and enabling supported decision-making. The main barrier to implementation of such changes was identified as being the lack of support of senior clinicians. The active support and enablement of trainees who want to share and apply new perspectives, models and approaches being advocated, including through current training, would likely be of benefit to all.

Keywords

Trainee educationrecoveryservice user academiasupervisionsupported decision-making
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Perspective Piece
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Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , June 2020 , pp. 141 - 145
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© College of Psychiatrists of Ireland 2020

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