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The right place? Users and professionals’ constructions of the place’s influence on personal recovery in community mental health services

Author: Ingrid Femdal

Published in: International Journal of Mental Health Systems | Issue 1/2018

Abstract

Background

Current mental health policy emphasizes the importance of community-based service delivery for people with mental health problems to encompass personal recovery. The aim of this study is to explore how users and professionals construct the place’s influence on personal recovery in community mental health services.

Methods

This is a qualitative, interpretive study based on ten individual, semi-structured interviews with users and professionals, respectively. A discourse analysis inspired by the work of Foucault was used to analyze the interviews.

Results

The findings show how place can be constructed as a potential for and as a barrier against recovery. Constructions of the aim of the services matter when choosing a place for the services. Further, constructions of user–professional relationships and flexibility are important in the constructions of an appropriate place for the services.

Conclusions

The aim of the service, the user–professional relationship, and flexibility in choosing place were essential in the participants’ constructions. To find “the right place” for mental health services was constructed as context-sensitive and complex processes of assessment and co-determination.

Trial registration The study is approved by the Regional Committee for Medical Research Ethics, Norway (REK-Midt 2011/2057)

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Title: The right place? Users and professionals’ constructions of the place’s influence on personal recovery in community mental health services
Author: Ingrid Femdal
Publication date: 01-12-2018
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: International Journal of Mental Health Systems / Issue 1/2018
Electronic ISSN: 1752-4458
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-018-0209-z

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