Re-imagining professionalism: towards co-production

本系列研讨会的目的是就如何鼓励和发展心理健康方面的共同制作提出想法。共同制作涉及精神卫生服务用户能够与专业人员一起作为平等伙伴决定自己的治疗和护理。这一应用程序是及时的，因为目前有一个强有力的政策重点，鼓励服务用户和照顾者更多地参与决策，他们接受的照顾。人们普遍认识到，在精神卫生保健中需要与服务用户合作的新方法（一种新的专业方法）。该系列研讨会由一个研究团队联合开发，该研究团队包括服务用户、护理人员以及在慈善/志愿组织、公共和政府组织工作的人员。研究团队的学者来自不同的学科背景：心理健康护理，哲学，政治学，精神病学，社会工作和社会学。该系列研讨会将使来自不同利益攸关方群体的人们聚集在一起，以发展基于共同生产原则的精神卫生工作新方法的想法。这将涉及考虑不同组织的现行做法、政策和方法，以及心理健康方面的教育和培训。至关重要的是，精神卫生服务使用者及其家庭照顾者将充分参与这一过程。我们以一种新的方式使用“专业”一词。一个专业人员可以（对我们来说）属于任何职业群体。在我们看来，使一个人成为专业人士的是他们的承诺感，而不是他们的职业地位。重要的是，我们认为服务使用者和家庭照顾者应被视为专业人士，因为他们是“经验丰富的专家”。我们的发言者和参与者包括一些人谁是在他们可以塑造实践，教育和政策的位置。我们认为，重要的是所有参与者都享有平等地位。我们的想法是，在小组之间分享想法将使我们能够弄清楚心理健康方面的专业精神如何建立在共同制作的基础上。在医疗保健中，越来越重视尊重不同人的价值观。这被称为基于价值的实践（VBP）。但问题是，越南船民忽略了权力的问题--这是一个现实，即有些人的价值观和观点比其他人更有力量和影响力。这就是为什么这个系列研讨会将鼓励人们通过考虑与“民主专业主义”（DP）相关的一些关键思想来思考联合制作。民主党是基于这样的想法，即重要的是，“外行”的人，特别是边缘化的人的声音，应被视为高度相关的，当谈到塑造专业实践和价值观。DP的另一个原则是，应该根据专业人员支持与他们一起工作的人（如服务用户）的参与和授权的程度来评估专业人员。换句话说，专业精神应该包括与他人分享权力，而不是对他人行使权力。我们相信，我们的系列研讨会将有助于发展适合21世纪世纪的专业实践和价值观。每个研讨会将集中在一个特定的主题：前两个研讨会设置现场的重点是共同生产和民主的专业精神和人民的生活经验的共同生产。接下来的研讨会将探讨如何改变心理健康的实践、政策和教育，以发展一种基于共同制作的新形式的专业精神。我们将在我们的网站上提供研讨会系列的视频记录，我们将有一个博客来继续讨论和对话。参加研讨会的所有团体都将为今后的实践和研究活动作出贡献。

The aim of this seminar series is to develop ideas on how to encourage and develop co-production in mental health. Co-production involves mental health service users being able to make decisions about their own treatment and care as equal partners alongside professionals. This application is timely because there is currently a strong policy emphasis encouraging the greater involvement of service users and carers in making decisions about the care they receive. It is widely recognised that new ways of working with service users (a new approach to professionalism) are needed in mental health care. This seminar series was developed jointly by a research team which includes service users, carers, and people working in charitable/voluntary organisations, and in public and governmental organisations. Academics in the research team are from diverse disciplinary backgrounds: mental health nursing, philosophy, political science, psychiatry, social work and sociology. The seminar series will bring people together from different stakeholder groups in order to develop ideas about new ways of working in mental health which are based on the principle of co-production. This will involve considering current practices, policies, approaches in different organisations, as well as education and training in mental health. Crucially, mental health service users and their family carers will fully participate in this process. We use the term 'professional' in a new way. A professional can (for us) belong to any occupational group. What makes someone professional is, in our view, their sense of commitment - not their occupational status. Importantly, we believe that service users and family carers should be considered professionals in this context because they are 'experts in experience'. Our speakers and participants include some people who are in positions where they can shape practice, education and policy. We believe though that it is important that all the participants have equal status. The idea is that sharing ideas across groups will be enable us to work out how professionalism in mental health can be based on co-production. In healthcare a growing importance is being placed on respecting different people's values. This is known as Values Based Practice (VBP). But the problem is that VBP overlooks problems of power - that is the reality that some people's values and perspectives are more powerful and influential than other people's. This is why this seminar series will encourage people to think about co-production by considering some of the key ideas associated with 'democratic professionalism' (DP). DP is based on the idea that it is important that the voices of 'lay' people, particularly marginalised people, should be regarded as highly relevant when it comes to shaping professional practice and values. Another principle of DP is that professionals should be assessed according to the extent to which they support the involvement and enablement of people they work with, such as service users. In other words, professionalism should involve sharing power with others, not exercising power over them. We believe that our seminar series will contribute to the development of professional practice and values which are suited to the 21st century. Each seminar will focus on a particular topic: the first two seminars set the scene with a focus on co-production and democratic professionalism and on people's lived experience of co-production. The seminars which follow consider how changes to practice, policy and education in mental health could be implemented to develop a new form of professionalism based on co-production.We will make the video-recordings of the seminar series available on our website and we will have a blog to continue the discussions and conversations which take place in the seminars. All the groups represented at the seminars will contribute to future practical and research initiatives.