Worldwide there has been a growth in service user involvement in education and research in recent years in recent years. This handbook is the first book which identifies what is happening in different regions of the world to provide different countries and client groups with the opportunity to learn from each other.

Divided into five sections:

• Service user involvement in context: Theoretical issues
• The state of service user involvement in human services involvement in education and research across the globe
• Service user involvement in human services education
• Service user involvement in research in the human services
• Future Challenges and Opportunities

and providing forty-eight chapters including seventeen case-studies from all regions of the world, this is the first book to both highlight the subject's methodological and theoretical issues as well as giving practical examples in education and research for those wishing to engage in this field.

It will be of interest to all service users, scholars and students of social work, nursing, occupational therapy, and other human service subjects.