Users and professionals have different views about social exclusion: results from a survey in Germany

Background/Objectives: National and international studies and projects note a fundamental lack of social inclusion for people with disabilities, but only few studies report on how user think about social exclusion. The aims of this study were: (1) to ask users how they think about ‘exclusion’ referring to ‘family', ‘partnership', ‘other people', ‘policy', ‘financial situation', and ‘occupation'; (2) how they think about ‘inpatient treatment', ‘medication', ‘voluntary system', ‘self-help', and ‘psychotherapy’ (What was harmful and resulted in exclusion and what was useful to be included?); (3) to do this study wi…