nificant yet, relevant correlation between policy and Social work, with regards to its implications on the roles and responsibilities of the profession. Brammer (2011) concurs with this concept of policy and legislation often having implications, predominantly to the roles and responsibilities of Social workers, who work within statutory frameworks. WHO (2012) agenda recognises the values of incorporating the study of mental health within college and university programmes as part of the curriculum as well as understanding mental health from view of a service user or carer with a livid experince.
Bee et al (2015) implies the need for professionals to adopt a new mindset rather than traditional view of service users and care specifically, regarding mental health. Processionals need to demonstrate readiness and capacity to implement change with the idea of partnership involvement with services users and cares during the care planning process. This is likely, to reduce service users and cares feeling stigmatised and marginalised and is a meaningful and innovative style to practice which, influences practice and promotes equality and recovery. Again, this concept contests with traditional views held by professionals in authority of service users having control of their lives even, with an impairment such as, mental health. The idea of recovery and responsibility being at the heart of service users and carers challenges psychiatric assumptions
Presently, there are several platforms which encourage and promote the emerging perspectives of service users. The Hearing Voices Movement (HVM) is one to mention as the platform promotes and empowers adult’s who are mental health survivors/ service users to educate and enlighten people about auditory and verbal hallucinations in place of being an expert within their own experiences (Corstens et al., 2014). Furthermore, this platform creates a platform for improvement in service delivery, the development of service user and carer-led initiatives and qualitative research. Murphy et al (2013) deliberates on the concept of ‘self’ being a method which promotes independence and choice.
Similarly, to the HVM movement is the Mad Pride (MP) service user led-initiative which focuses on a unique area, of education (LeFrançois, Menzies and Reaume, 2013).The movement embraces the need for social change through re-educating individuals about their understanding of mental health, challenging prejudices and discrimination towards people with a psychiatric illness as well as thought-provoking language used to describe those with a mental health illness. this theme of emerging perspectives challenges the status quo of psychiatric services users being incapable and rather viewing, the movement as a celebration for those with the condition (Haigh, 2016) With this, service user-led incentives contribute to the development of mental health policy in challenging ancient psychiatric dominance and stigma. Furthermore, service user’s perspective emerging promotes and raises awareness of ‘recovery’ and ‘peer support’ this notion stems from mental health service users/survivors stereotyping (Beresford and Russo, 2016).
Whilst there is evidence to suggest service user participation exists and that there are movements