{"id":42233,"date":"2019-01-23T14:26:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T12:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niemikoti.fi\/?page_id=42233"},"modified":"2025-08-29T09:36:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T06:36:29","slug":"what-is-an-expert-by-experience","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/niemikoti.fi\/en\/experts-by-experience\/what-is-an-expert-by-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is an Expert by Experience?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>An Expert by Experience<\/strong> is a person who has personal experience of illness, disability, disorder, or addiction, and who has completed training to prepare for expert-by-experience roles. An expert by experience may be a person with a diagnosis, someone in recovery, a service user, or a family member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their experiences provide client-oriented knowledge about living with illness, the process of recovery, everyday life of a person in rehabilitation, the effectiveness of existing services, and the need for new services. Experts by experience work in cooperation with professionals, complementing their work rather than acting alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The involvement of experts by experience is based on the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health\u2019s <strong>National Mental Health and Substance Abuse Plan 2009\u20132015 (Mieli 2009)<\/strong>. The plan states that lived experience expertise should be utilized in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the planning, implementation, and evaluation of mental health and substance abuse services<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>municipal strategy work<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>rehabilitation working groups<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>housing services<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>efforts to reduce involuntary treatment and coercive measures<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>various expert assessments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>training and awareness-raising activities to reduce prejudice and strengthen the position of clients<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: Guide to Expert by Experience Activities, Outi Hietala &amp; P\u00e4ivi Rissanen, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other opportunities for involving experts by experience include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>interviewing new clients or employees<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>orientation processes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>presenting the unit<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>care meetings<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>peer support groups<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"margin: 20px 0;\"><div class=\"qrcswholewtapper\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><div class=\"qrcprowrapper\"  id=\"qrcwraa2leds\"><div class=\"qrc_canvass\" id=\"qrc_cuttenpages_2\" style=\"display:none\" data-text=\"https:\/\/niemikoti.fi\/en\/experts-by-experience\/what-is-an-expert-by-experience\/\"><\/div><div><a download=\"What Is an Expert by Experience?.png\" class=\"qrcdownloads\" id=\"worign\">\r\n           <button type=\"button\" style=\"min-width:200px;background:#c8fd8c;color:#000;font-weight: 600;border: 1px solid #dddddd;border-radius:4px;font-size:12px;padding: 6px 0;\" class=\"uqr_code_btn\">Lataa QR-koodi<\/button>\r\n           <\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Expert by Experience is a person who has personal experience of illness, disability, disorder, or addiction, and who has completed training to prepare for expert-by-experience roles. 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