First Person Recovery

Gail,

doi:10.1300/j374v04n01_11

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“…More balance is achieved if the person in recovery is also obliged to give, thus experiencing being part of something greater than oneself. The first-person discourse on recovery suggests that participation, through both receiving and giving, is fulfilling and meaningful for the person in recovery (Andres-Hyman et al, 2008; Behrman, 2005; Borg and Davidson, 2008; Borg and Kristiansen, 2008; Davidson et al, 2018; De Ruysscher et al, 2017; Doroud et al, 2015; Edward and Robins, 2012; Gail, 2008; Hipolito et al, 2011; Landheim et al, 2015; Reed et al, 2018; Whitley, 2012). Klevan et al, (2020) suggest that recovery is not a one-way process where the professional guides the service user.…”

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Giving can be meaningful: A two-part qualitative analysis to restore and decode professionals’ understandings of meaningfulness in dual recovery

Tønnessen

Klevan

Ness

2023

Human Systems: Therapy, Culture and Attachments

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Through a double interpretation of a focus group interview, the study explores how recovery-oriented professionals in a supported housing facility for people in dual recovery support the residents’ need for meaningfuless in everyday life, and how this work may also facilitate the professionals’ own need for meaningfuless. Findings suggest that professionals promote meaningful everyday life for residents by constructing (1) an open house (2) a house with a framework, and (3) a house of change, and for them self by constructing (4) a house of giving. The study proposes that a discourse is active in the data, namely, that the professional is usually in the position of giving and the person in recovery is usually in the position of receiving. We suggest that if professionals wish to promote recovery, they should provide opportunities for service users to give, not just to receive.

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