PARCC MODEL CONTENT FRAMEWORKS ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS/LITERACY GRADES 3–11

In order to establish how important service user involvement is in good quality mental health and social care services it is necessary to explore the emergence and reasons for such user involvement. Barnes and Bowl (2001), Pilgrim and Rodgers (1999) and Campbell (1999), site that the user movement emerged in response to the emergence of the political right and consumerist ideology in 1980’s. Such a growing consumer power base can be seen to have “undoubtedly added to current willingness for service providers and purchasers to consider the views of people with a mental illness diagnosis”. 16 However, they...