Models for Prosumer Collaboration in Staff Development & Patient Support: Adding Value to Inpatient Psychiatric Care at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
OPEN MINDS, The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst
Industry Analysis
Over the past ten years, the psychiatric rehabilitation movement has demonstrated the importance of partnering with psychiatric consumers in service delivery as a means to promote recovery, by recruiting persons as care providers in outpatient settings, specifically because of their history of mental illness. These individuals are known as prosumers. Technically, the word, prosumer is a neologism, created by linking the words professional and consumer. A broader understanding of prosumers, and the one used in our work, is the . . .