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When policy makers consult professional groups in public policy formation: transversal consultation in the Belgian Mental Health Sector
Thunus, Sophie; Schoenaers, Frédéric
2012In Policy and Society, 31 (3), p. 145-158
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Keywords :
Mental Health; Public policy; Exeprience-based Knowledge
Abstract :
[en] This contribution focuses on a policy consultation process: the ‘‘transversal consultation’’. Launched in 2007 in the Belgian Mental Health Sector, this consultation had to capture the experience-based knowledge of service users and professionals involved in local projects aimed at experimenting working conditions in mental health care networks. This policy challenges the existing hospital-centred model of care, characterized by a medical approach and professional specialization, by promoting instead a pluridisciplinary approach in mental health care networks. In this contribution, a case of this transversal consultation process is analysed by relying on a theoretical framework drawn from the Sociology of Organizations and the Sociology of Public Action. The analysis emphasizes the strategic use that ismade of the consultation process, and stresses the gap observed between its formal objective and its perceived outcome: more than producing experience-based knowledge about mental health care networks, the transversal consultation challenged power relations sustaining the current organization of the mental health system. It shortly discusses, as a conclusion, the outcome of the initiative.
Research center :
Centre de Recherche et d'Interventions Sociologiques (CRIS)
Disciplines :
Social work & social policy
Public health, health care sciences & services
Sociology & social sciences
Author, co-author :
Thunus, Sophie ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Institut des sciences humaines et sociales > Sociologie des ress. hum. et des systèmes institutionnels
Schoenaers, Frédéric  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Institut des sciences humaines et sociales > Sociologie des ress. hum. et des systèmes institutionnels
Language :
English
Title :
When policy makers consult professional groups in public policy formation: transversal consultation in the Belgian Mental Health Sector
Alternative titles :
[en] La concertation transversale en Belgique: quand les décideurs politiques impliquent les acteurs professionnels dans le développement de l'action publique
Publication date :
June 2012
Journal title :
Policy and Society
ISSN :
1449-4035
eISSN :
1839-3373
Publisher :
Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Special issue title :
Local Knowledge in Policy Making
Volume :
31
Issue :
3
Pages :
145-158
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Name of the research project :
Knowledge and Policy in Education and Helath Sector
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