User involvement – children

KBT are working with userinvolvement for young people in several ways. Among other things, we have a resource group consisting of committed young people, participates on conferences and we are working on different projects with or about user involvement. Room for user involvement Both professionals and young people using health and welfare services often wish…

Norwegian Health about rights Norwegian Health about mental health and children Booklet for Adults about The Children`s and Young People`s Psychiatric Out-Patient Clinic (2008) Booklet for youth about The Children`s and Young People`s Psychiatric Out-Patient Clinic (2008) Booklet for children about The Children`s and Young People`s Psychiatric Out-Patient Clinic (2008) Children`s Research Centre`s resources The…

For literature in norwegian, see our norwegian resource pages. Public documents about user involvement Musinguzi, M. S. W & Ellingsen, I. T. (2017). The Norwegian Ombudsman for Children on child participation: Perceptions, impacts and dilemmas. Journal of Comparative Social Work (2). Norwegian Ministry of Children and Equality. (2016). The Rights of the Child in Norway…

Organizations, foundations and voluntary agencies The Change Factory – Presents knowledge and experiences from children and adolescents, through lectures, counseling and courses. Save the children – Working for children with children, especially vulnerable groups. Voksne for barn – Provides knowledge on experience and methodology for systems and individuals. Mental health youth – Working for increased…

Methods for user involvement of children and youth There are many ways to involve children and youth regarding to services, research and more. Following are a list over different ways this can be done:   Equal cooperation – Participation in own plan and process as a service user. IP – Individuell plan [Individual plan] –…

Text by Anne Plathe How does user involvement happen in practice? One of the models that has had a lot of influence on this topic was developed by Hart in 1992, and has the name “Ladder of children’s participation”. This model is reflected in Theoretical perspectives of youth participation- a literary review (Teoretiske perspektiver i…

Text by Anne Plathe, 2017    There is increasing focus on the importance of the service user perspective in developing health services. Children and adolescents have previously had little involvement in this process, and been underestimated for the benefit of observing adults like parents or professionals. KBT thinks it’s important to raise these voices. We…