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Oct 2026
"You wouldn't want to talk to someone who doesn't understand": Mental health service user attitudes towards practitioners with lived experience of mental ill-health.
The working relationship between mental health practitioners and service users is one of the greatest determinants of therapeutic success. However, drivers of a productive service user-practitioner relationship are still insufficiently understood, with particularly limited exploration of service users' perspectives. Th...
Lillian E. Starling, Helena Roennfeldt, Cole Johnson et al.
· Journal of Health Psychology · 0 citations