The Emerging Self in Conceptualizing and Treating Mental Illness

Roe, David; Chopra, Miriam; Wagner, Benjamin; Katz, Galia; Rudnick, Abraham

doi:10.3928/02793695-20040201-06

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“…Interestingly, significant correlations were observed regardless of the respondents' sex, age, diagnosis, duration of illness, and number/duration of hospitalizations, as well as community/inpatient status. Recovery is described as a highly individual, non‐linear process (Anthony, 1993; Roe et al ., 2004; Andresen et al ., 2006) and benefit‐finding is also a concept of discrete internal changes. Therefore, the relationship of these inward processes might tend to be unaffected by such demographic or clinical factors.…”

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Quantitative relationship between recovery and benefit‐finding among persons with chronic mental illness in Japan

Chiba

Kawakami

Miyamoto³

2011

Nursing & Health Sciences

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This study quantitatively examined the association between recovery and benefit-finding among persons with a chronic mental illness in Japan. A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted, with responses from 237 (74%) of 319 individuals (≥ 20 years old) with a chronic mental illness in community and inpatient ward settings. The data of 120 questionnaires were analyzed (men, 64%; average age, 41 years). The questionnaire included the Recovery Assessment Scale (RAS) and Self-identified Stage of Recovery Parts A and B (SISR-A and SISR-B) for assessing recovery and the Perceived Positive Change Scale (PPCS) for assessing benefit-finding. The total RAS and SISR-B scores strongly and positively correlated with the PPCS score. The PPCS score significantly differed among the recovery stages, as classified by the SISR-A, with higher scores at higher stages; the association was almost linear. The study confirmed the theoretically expected relationship between recovery and benefit-finding among these individuals. Benefit-finding might be associated not only with a higher stage of recovery but also with each step from one stage to another.

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Quantitative relationship between recovery and benefit‐finding among persons with chronic mental illness in Japan

Chiba

Kawakami

Miyamoto³

2011

Nursing & Health Sciences

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“…Definitions that appear to have avoided references to medical or disability language at all include references to recovery as a process and/or change of attitudes and personal growth and healing (Anthony 1993; Deegan 1993; 2001; Jacobson & Greenley 2001; Reeves 1998; Rethink 2005; Roe et al. 2004; Spaniol et al.…”

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Confusion of recovery: One solution

Collier

2010

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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This paper questions the current mental health discourse that offers new definitions of the concept of 'recovery' and offers a different perspective that aims to clarify its meaning. Confusion is caused when medical language continues to be used in discussions that aim to challenge traditional medical understanding of the term 'recovery' (meaning cure). Medical and non-medical concepts of recovery are referred to interchangeably in many narratives and the common references to and acceptance of the Harding et al. papers and similar that report on how people can 'get better' from schizophrenia perpetuates this confusion. In this paper, it is suggested that 'recovery' should not be viewed as having new meaning, but that two different concepts have been confused, with the same word having been used to describe two completely different things altogether. This means that what is referred to in this paper as 'medical' recovery (traditional definitions of recovery that aims for cure), becomes subordinate to 'life' recovery (personal development and change) in which psychiatric classification might have no part in a person's understanding of their experience and where improving 'symptoms' could be irrelevant in the personal process of growth and discovery.

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“…As Watkins (2007) states, 'recovery is a process of accepting and transcending a vulnerability to overwhelming psychological distress and dysfunction in the pursuit of whatever life goals and aspirations an individual sets for him-or herself ' (p. 27). The concept represents a paradigm shift in mental health service direction that emanated from the voices of the consumer and service user movements (Anthony 1993;Deegan 1998;Roe et al 2004). For a brief summary of how the recovery paradigm compares and contrasts with the traditional psychiatric paradigm see Table 1.…”

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Connecting narrative with mental health learning through discussion and analysis of selected contemporary films

McAllister

2015

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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In a recently completed qualitative study of nursing leaders' views of requirements for practice, seven aspects of recovery practice were revealed as central for graduates to learn. It is challenging to provide an in-depth understanding of recovery in a nursing curriculum because there are so many competing content areas and, as a result, time is constrained. However, because it is so vital to understand, educators would benefit from developing and sharing teaching strategies that explore recovery deeply, memorably, and engagingly, in order to encourage theory to be put into practice. Recent research into narrative pedagogy suggests that better use of stories, especially those that have strong emotional pull, such as well-made films and memoirs, may offer solutions to creative educators. Stories can have transformative potential, because once heard and heeded, the person can never go back to exactly how they were before. Recovery learned in this way becomes a threshold concept for the mental health curriculum. This paper outlines an engaging and time-efficient teaching strategy to develop these skills, drawing on the concept of narrative pedagogy.

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The Emerging Self in Conceptualizing and Treating Mental Illness

Cited by 18 publications

References 37 publications

Quantitative relationship between recovery and benefit‐finding among persons with chronic mental illness in Japan

Quantitative relationship between recovery and benefit‐finding among persons with chronic mental illness in Japan

Confusion of recovery: One solution

Connecting narrative with mental health learning through discussion and analysis of selected contemporary films

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