Making Partnerships with Service Users and Advocacy Groups Work : How to Grow Genuine and Respectful Relationships in Health and Social Care.

Making Partnerships with Service Users and Advocacy Groups Work; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Partnerships and growing spaces; The partnerships; Chapter 1 Preparing the Ground; Motivation; All welcome in this partnership!; A space to be ourselves; Getting things agreed at the start; Shared values; Power; Support within partnerships; Trust; Challenging each other in a partnership; Chapter 2 Sowing the Seeds; Learning from each other; Learning from working together; What helps and what hinders partnership working?; Who makes the decisions?; How do partnerships agree on their vision?

How are different perspectives valued?How is different experience valued in partnerships?; Power differences; How is potential recognised and developed in partnerships?; Chapter 3 Green Shoots; How is trust gained in a partnership?; Building on trust towards confidence; New knowledge from within partnerships; When people feel vulnerable in a partnership; How do partnerships ensure that everyone is heard?; As partnerships become established, what helps and what hinders?; Signs of sickness and health; Feeling valued, listened to and involved; Who owns the partnership?; Who takes the credit?

Whose working styles?Can difficulties be learned from, or do they stagnate and cause blight?; Are people free to learn together?; Chapter 4 Blossoming and Proliferation; How do partnerships measure their own success?; How have people been able to reflect together about what they have learned?; Propagation and dispersal; Being creative; Good models of practice in partnership working; Learning about yourself in partnership working; Learning from and about others; Chapter 5 Perennial Pests and Growing Tips!; Perennial pests; Julie's growing tips; Jackie's growing tips; The partners' growing tips.

Concluding Thoughts: Space to Grow FurtherMaking our own growing space; Growing spaces for all?; Over to you; Index; Blank Page.

The word 'partnership' is often used to describe the relationship between health and social care providers and service users, but in reality this can appear to be empty rhetoric. Stakeholders may fulfil their obligations and use the language of service user involvement while traditional attitudes and practice remain unchanged. This inspiring book sets out how to make true partnership work. Built around the stories of real partnerships and written collaboratively with service users groups and individuals, it introduces the concept of 'growing spaces' where people can pool ideas, energy, skills.

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