Lived Experience, Research Leadership, and the Transformation of Mental Health Services: Building a Researcher Pipeline

• DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.202000468
• Publication Date: 2021-03-11T08:11:50Z
• Authors: Nev Jones; Kendall Atterbury; Louise Byrne; Michelle Carras; Marie Brown; Peter Phalen
• Keywords: Scope (computer science); Investment; Photovoice

In recent years, investment in participatory research methods within mental health services has grown. Participatory efforts are often limited scope, however, and attention to leadership is largely absent from discourse about stakeholder involvement the United States. This Open Forum calls for building a pipeline of researchers with significant psychiatric disabilities intersecting lived experiences frequently studied public sector research, including homelessness, incarceration, comorbid problems, structural racism, poverty. A series concrete steps described that faculty can take now.