Service user integration into social work education: lessons learned from nordic participatory action projects.
Service users have lacked substantial influence, access, and participation in social work education in Norway and Sweden. In this article the author presents comparative analyses of two participatory projects that have developed and implemented practices that integrate service users into academic social work education and empower service users. The Norwegian HUSK project and the Social Work as Mobilization and Entrepreneurship course, also known as the "Mobilization course," at Lund University in Sweden demonstrate collaboration between research, social work education, and service users. The conclusions focus on the importance of the empowering processes by including recognition and dialogue, co-learning in practice, and the use of neutral venues to ensure effective user participation. The inclusion of service users in social work education can improve both practice and education.
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D003142:Communication D055317:Evidence-Based Practice D006801:Humans D009664:Norway D011369:Professional-Patient Relations D012946:Social Welfare D012947:Social Work D013548:Sweden D013663:Teaching D014495:Universities
social work education Nordic participatory Service user participation empowerment