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

Harris, Maxine; Anglin, Jerri

doi:10.1007/s10597-008-9125-z

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“…Given pejorative attitudes toward the mentally ill, we might consider them to be members of an oppressed group. And Freire’s work has served as the theoretical foundation for studies of adults with mental illness, emphasizing mutual support via study circles (Whitney et al, 2008), as well as critical reflection on storytelling accompanied by visual images (Mizock et al, 2014; Potash et al, 2018). Within the APFU group, interactions were most certainly dialogic in nature with no single person serving as “teacher.” The group never emphasized common political difficulties or taking action in the world in ways that promoted change.…”

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Theory-Responsive Data Analysis: Searching for the Closest Fit

Jaeger

2022

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Qualitative researchers differ in their beliefs about the role of theory in data analysis. Some begin with theoretical constructs employed as codes in a deductive process while others hold theory at bay until late in an inductive process ( Gibbs, 2007 ). Still others toggle back and forth from theory to data to theory and so on. Researchers have offered comprehensive accounts of inductive coding (e.g., grounded theory; Charmaz, 2006 ) or general descriptions of the application of theory within data analysis ( Anfara & Mertz, 2006 ; Dressman, 2008 ). Absent from the literature, however, is a detailed description of a back-and-forth analysis practice. The current article fills this gap in the literature by presenting a specific procedure in which the researcher begins with an initial theoretical position and then examines the data to establish a key question raised by that data. The process continues as the researcher considers a variety of theories which address the question, selects the “best fit” theory, carefully applies that theory to the data and supporting literature, and finally reflects on ways in which study findings may enhance the theory. I exemplify this activity with data from a study of members of a writing group for adults with major mental illness.

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Theory-Responsive Data Analysis: Searching for the Closest Fit

Jaeger

2022

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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“…Frueh and colleagues have suggested, for instance a multicomponent cognitive-behavioral intervention for persons with SMI, including education, anxiety management, social skills training and exposure therapy [36]. Similarly, Harris and colleagues have modified their trauma recovery and empowerment approach to meet the needs of patients with SMI [37,38]. This 33-week program includes group psychoeducation, reframing, problem solving, addressing the trauma directly with aims toward developing sense of validation, self-trust and competence.…”

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Clinical and psychosocial significance of trauma history in schizophrenia spectrum disorders

Lysaker

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Ringer

2010

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

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Interest has arisen in the role stressors play in the development and outcome of schizophrenia. This article examines one such stressor - trauma experienced prior to the onset of illness. We discuss research on the incidence, types and correlates of trauma in schizophrenia, and review work suggesting trauma may increase risk for schizophrenia. Studies are further detailed that have examined links between trauma and heightened levels of positive symptoms and anxiety, and poorer social, vocational and treatment outcomes. Here, literature on approaches to addressing trauma among persons with schizophrenia is presented, along with a commentary that points to the need for research on how trauma might increase the risk for the development of schizophrenia and worsen the symptoms and treatment outcome of individuals in recovery from this illness.

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“…In the US, older ''clubhouse models'' were designed to connect their ''members'' with the broader community, and seemed to help people feel ''less lonely'' (Stein, Barry, van Dien, Hollingsworth, & Sweeney, 1999), but offered little in terms of the employment, education, housing, spirituality, social relations, and recreational activities service users find essential for recovery (Slade, 2010). Researchers have Myers further observed that older clubhouse models provided refuge rather than rehabilitation (Whitley, Harris, & Anglin, 2008), and that in the long term, they can become ''isolated havens'' that foster a ''service-dependent lifestyle'' (Whitley, Strickler, & Drake, 2012).…”

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Recovery stories: An anthropological exploration of moral agency in stories of mental health recovery

Myers

2016

Transcult Psychiatry

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Moral agency has been loosely defined as the freedom to aspire to a "good life" that makes possible intimate relationships with others. This article uses ethnographic research to further the discussion of the role of moral agency in mental health recovery. This article attends to the ebb and flow of moral agency in the life stories of three people diagnosed with a serious psychiatric disability at different stages in their individual recoveries to illustrate particular aspects of moral agency relevant for recovery. From these, a more complex notion of moral agency emerges as the freedom not only to aspire to a "good life," but also to achieve a "good" life through having both the intention to aspire and access to resources that help bring one's life plans to fruition. Each storyteller describes an initial Aristotelian peripeteia, or "breach" of life plan, followed by an erosion of moral agency and sense of connection to others. The stories then diverge: some have the resources needed to preserve moral agency, and others attempt to replenish moral agency that has been eroded. In these stories, the resources for preserving and nourishing moral agency include the ability to cultivate the social bases of self-respect, autobiographical power, and peopled opportunities. These stories cumulatively suggest that without such resources one's attempts to preserve or nourish the moral agency needed for recovery after the peripeteia, which is often perpetuated by the onset and experience of serious mental illness, may fall short.

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

Cited by 12 publications

References 13 publications

Theory-Responsive Data Analysis: Searching for the Closest Fit

Theory-Responsive Data Analysis: Searching for the Closest Fit

Clinical and psychosocial significance of trauma history in schizophrenia spectrum disorders

Recovery stories: An anthropological exploration of moral agency in stories of mental health recovery

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