Reflexivity and participation in communities

Social work educators in Ireland and other parts of the world have had a mixed history of engagement with service users in the curriculum. Often this resulted in limited or tokenistic.

Service user engagement with women in recovery from addiction: learning from an Irish social work module component

Introduction
In response to the increasing need for raising the sensitivity of social work and health care students for the live experience of service users, it has become important to embed service user involvement in core curriculum content and delivery. In our example, we have used the guiding questions of the RPP involving six packages of focus to describe our experience.