Gair, Susan (2025) Honouring the Legitimacy and Power of Shared Lived Experience in Social Work. Australian Social Work, 78 (2). pp. 129-132.

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Abstract

[Extract] Lived experience is an invaluable source of knowledge in social work. Service users, mental health lived experience experts, Indigenous, feminist, and disability practitioners, researchers, and scholars and Mad scholarship all have emphasised the importance of listening to lived experience (see Cantley, Citation2025; Prehn, Citation2025; Woodlock et al. Citation2025; this Issue; Sinclair & Mahboub, Citation2024). Similarly, patient-centred, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive practice approaches have helped us to invert notions of expert knowledge and to recognise and uphold the richness, power, legitimacy, and validity of lived experience expertise (Loughhead et al., Citation2023; Sinclair & Mahboub, Citation2024).

Item ID:	85018
Item Type:	Article (Editorial)
ISSN:	0312-407X
Keywords:	lived experience; social work; power; legitimacy
Date Deposited:	31 Mar 2025 23:03
FoR Codes:	44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4409 Social work > 440901 Clinical social work practice @ 100%
SEO Codes:	20 HEALTH > 2099 Other health > 209999 Other health not elsewhere classified @ 100%
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