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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Brady, Louca-Mai
• Casey, Helen
• Duffy, Joe
• Beresford, Peter
• McLaughlin, Hugh
• Cameron, Colin

Titel

Rhetoric to reality: Challenges and opportunities for embedding young people’s involvement in health research

Ist Teil von

• The Routledge Handbook of Service User Involvement in Human Services Research and Education, 2021, p.454-466

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• While there is growing awareness of the case for children and young people’s involvement across the public sector, there is limited evidence on how this apparent commitment to involvement and children’s rights translates into professional practice and young people’s experience of involvement in health research. There are also disparities in the characteristics of young people likely to be involved, the types of decisions they are involved in making, and the extent to which this involvement is meaningful and effective. Involvement should lead to research, and ultimately services, that better reflect young people’s priorities and concerns. This is especially important for young people deemed to be more ‘vulnerable’, whose voices are often absent from the literature. This chapter draws on learning from a research study involving young people with experience of drug and alcohol services to explore the potential for new approaches which would do more to transfer power to young people and presents a rights-based framework for embedding young people’s involvement in research in ways that are meaningful, effective, and sustainable.