The aim of this paper is to inform the design of individualised funding schemes via an examination of discourses and experiences of choice related to people with psychosocial disability. Mind Australia, in partnership with Deakin University, interviewed 22 individuals with psychosocial disability who are recipients of individual funding packages in three National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) trial sites across Australia. This research involved examining the policy and assumptions of choice under the NDIS, as well as the experience of undertaking choice through individualised funding arrangements which position people with psychosocial disability as consumers in a market place of service provision. The findings demonstrate that choice is an ongoing activity and that at every stage personal, programmatic and market barriers impact individuals’ capacity to maximise choice. The intent of government policy to provide choice to individual funding recipients based on an optimally functioning market place with empowered self-actualising individuals collides with a complex reality where barriers abound at every stage of the choice making process. Enhancing choice making of people with psychosocial disability within the NDIS requires governments and services to explicitly address the personal, programmatic and market-based barriers to choice.

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探索社会心理残障人士在 NDIS 中选择的个人、计划和市场障碍

本文的目的是通过对与社会心理残疾者相关的话语和选择经验的研究，为个性化资助计划的设计提供信息。Mind Australia 与迪肯大学合作，在澳大利亚的三个国家残疾保险计划 (NDIS) 试验地点采访了 22 名社会心理残疾者，这些人是个人资助计划的接受者。这项研究涉及检查 NDIS 下的选择政策和假设，以及通过个性化的资助安排进行选择的经验，这些安排将心理社会残疾的人定位为服务提供市场的消费者。研究结果表明，选择是一项持续的活动，在每个阶段都是个人的，计划和市场障碍影响个人最大化选择的能力。政府政策旨在为个人资金接受者提供选择的目的是基于一个最佳运作的市场，以及有能力实现自我实现的个人，这与一个复杂的现实相冲突，在这个复杂的现实中，在选择过程的每个阶段都存在大量障碍。加强 NDIS 内社会心理残疾者的选择需要政府和服务部门明确解决个人、计划和市场选择障碍。