Constituting Community: Creating a Place for Oneself

Beal, Georgiana; Veldhorst, Georgina; Guruge, Sepali; Grewal, Parveen; Dinunzio, Rosanna; Trimnell, Jean

doi:10.1521/psyc.2005.68.3.199

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“…Yet professional attempts to reduce social isolation through medication or professionally run programs can reinforce segregation from the larger community (Hogarty & Wieland, 2005), whereas simply discharging inpatients to community settings without proactive efforts to decrease social isolation can result in very minimal patterns of social interaction-''virtual relations'' with TV characters and ''venturing forth'' simply to have casual contact with people in settings like stores and parks (Beal et al, 2005;Liberman & Silbert, 2005).…”

Section: Social Isolation and Peer Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the processes by which these outcomes are effected are not well understood. Many peer support programs have focused on developing supportive structures within or in collaboration with the formal mental health system (Beal et al, 2005). Therapeutic communities emphasize peer support processes involving intense engagement of staff who are neither clinicians nor consumers (Rapaport, 1960).…”

Section: Social Isolation and Peer Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Empowerment and peer support: structure and process of self‐help in a consumer‐run center for individuals with mental illness

Schutt

Rogers

2009

Journal Community Psychology

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Personal empowerment is a guiding philosophy of many mental health service programs, but there has been little empirical research on the empowerment process in these programs. The authors examine social processes and consumer orientations within a self‐help drop‐in center for individuals with psychiatric disabilities, using intensive interviews and focus groups. They investigate motives for consumer involvement, bases for program retention, and processes of participant change. Motives for involvement in the center were primarily instrumental, whereas the bases of retention were more often maintaining social support and developing self‐esteem. Participants valued the center's nonstigmatizing environment and its supportive consumer staff. Some used the opportunity to become a staff member to move into a more normalized social role; all seemed to derive benefits from helping peers. There were indications of some staff members adopting a more authoritarian posture, but participants repeatedly lauded most staff for their supportive orientation. The authors conclude that the “helper/therapy” process was a key to successful empowerment. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Section: Social Isolation and Peer Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Social Isolation and Peer Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Empowerment and peer support: structure and process of self‐help in a consumer‐run center for individuals with mental illness

Schutt

Rogers

2009

Journal Community Psychology

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“…In such cases, social avoidance or a decrease in social interactions can be experienced as protective. Nevertheless, social relations constitute an important bond with the community, and hold the potential to offer hope and to contribute to QOL (Beal et al 2005;Borge et al 1999;Lencucha et al 2008). In addition, positive social relations and a strong supportive network were found to have the potential for relieving psychiatric symptoms (Davidson 2005;Davidson et al 2004), positively influencing outcomes and assisting recovery (Yanos and Robilotta in press).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Housing Model for Persons with Serious Mental Illness Moderates the Relation Between Loneliness and Quality of Life

Weiner

Roe

Mashiach–Eizenberg

et al. 2009

Community Ment Health J

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This study compared levels of loneliness, quality of life (QOL) and social support among people with serious mental illness (SMI) living in two different types of housing: group homes and supportive community housing. Forty persons with SMI living in supportive community housing and 57 living in a group home completed measures of QOL, symptoms, perceived social support and loneliness. Analysis of variance tests were conducted to examine whether there were differences in degree of loneliness, QOL and social support between the groups living in the two residential types. No significant differences between the two housing models were found. Correlational analysis, however, indicated a strong relationship between loneliness and QOL. Subsequent regression analysis revealed that residence in group homes moderates the relationship between social loneliness and QOL, such that social loneliness impacted QOL only among group home residence. Implications of the findings for understanding the impact of housing on QOL are discussed.

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“…The emphasis on incremental psychosocial improvement arose as ongoing research suggests that widespread social deficits permeate the life-worlds of people with SMI. These have a deleterious impact on dayto-day life, and are rarely addressed by traditional services (Beal 2005;Corrigan and Phelen 2004).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Various studies have shown that three frequent corollaries of SMI are (i) involvement in substance abuse communities marked by risky behaviors and exploitation (ii) difficulty maintaining safe, stable and mutually-satisfying inter-personal relationships (iii) isolation, loneliness and despair (Grella 1994;Owen et al 1998;Fallot and Harris 2002;Beal 2005). Harris et al (2005) elucidate the association between these factors, reporting that involvement in substance abuse provides a social network that proffers much needed company, comfort and some form of social integration for people with SMI.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Refuge or Rehabilitation? Assessing the Development of a Women’s Empowerment Center for People with Severe Mental Illness

Harris¹,

Anglin²

2008

Community Ment Health J

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Recent calls for psychiatric services to focus upon psychosocial recovery for people with severe mental illness has led to a renewed interest in recovery communities. Hence, Community Connections (Washington DC) set up a Women's Empowerment Center as an intentional recovery community. The aim of this paper is to qualitatively chronicle the development of this center to assess emerging challenges. Focus groups and participant observation were conducted regularly over a 16-month period. Analysis suggested three emerging challenges (i) concern regarding unmet practical and physical needs (ii) the struggle to establish internal rules and corrective mechanisms (iii) frustration regarding differential participation.

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Constituting Community: Creating a Place for Oneself

Cited by 15 publications

References 24 publications

Empowerment and peer support: structure and process of self‐help in a consumer‐run center for individuals with mental illness

Empowerment and peer support: structure and process of self‐help in a consumer‐run center for individuals with mental illness

Housing Model for Persons with Serious Mental Illness Moderates the Relation Between Loneliness and Quality of Life

Refuge or Rehabilitation? Assessing the Development of a Women’s Empowerment Center for People with Severe Mental Illness

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