Developing consumer/ survivor/recovering voice and its impact on services and research: Our experience with the SAMHSA Women, Co-Occurring Disorders and Violence Study
✍ Scribed by Susan Mockus; Laura Cinq Mars; Dorothy Guazzo Ovard; Ruta Mazelis; Paula Bjelajac; Janice Grady; Christine LaClair; Cardenia Livingston; Sharon Slavin; Susan Williams; Jacki McKinney
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 101 KB
- Volume
- 33
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0090-4392
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Integrating consumer/survivor/recovering (C/S/R) women in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Women, Co‐Occurring Disorders and Violence Study involved both struggles and growth. The C/S/R women and all of our professional allies, both individually and collectively, greatly enhanced the study by overcoming what earlier seemed to be insurmountable obstacles. Integral to the C/S/R group's personal and professional growth was the development and expression of their individual and collective voices. Documenting this history and the impact that the collaboration between the C/S/R women and other professional staff had on the study is of vital importance in the field of research and advocacy. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comm Psychol 33: 513–525, 2005.