ArticlePsychiatric rehabilitation journal2020
Eliciting recovery narratives in global mental health: Benefits and potential harms in service user participation.
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- Uses and Misuses of Recorded Mental Health Lived Experience Narratives in Healthcare and Community Settings: Systematic Review.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2022Pooled it
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- Collaboration With People With Lived Experience of Mental Illness to Reduce Stigma and Improve Primary Care Services: A Pilot Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2021Trial
- Impact of Service User Video Presentations on Explicit and Implicit Stigma toward Mental Illness among Medical Students in Nepal: A Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Trial
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- Why can't we talk about suicide?Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2025Review
- A rapid realist review of literature examining Co-production in mental health services for youth.JCPP advances · 2024Article
- Ethical challenges in contemporary psychiatry: an overview and an appraisal of possible strategies and research needs.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2024Article
- Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of online recorded recovery narratives in improving quality of life for people with non-psychotic mental health problems: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2024Article
- Establishing partnerships with people with lived experience of mental illness for stigma reduction in low- and middle-income settings.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
- "Nothing's changed, baby": How the mental health narratives of people with multiple and complex needs disrupt the recovery framework.SSM. Mental health · 2023Article
- Assessing Diversity and Inclusivity is the Next Frontier in Mental Health Recovery Narrative Research and Practice.JMIR mental health · 2023Article
- Operationalising a Recovery-Oriented Support and Information Programme Online: The EOLAS Programme.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The PhotoVoice method for collaborating with people with lived experience of mental health conditions to strengthen mental health services.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2023Article
- "The Best of Both Worlds": Experiences of young people attending groups co-facilitated by peer workers and clinicians in a youth mental health service.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Decolonising global mental health: The role of Mad Studies.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2023Review
- Lived Experiences of Mental Health Recovery in Persons of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Backgrounds within the Australian Context.Journal of psychosocial rehabilitation and mental health · 2022Article
- 'Maybe I Shouldn't Talk': The Role of Power in the Telling of Mental Health Recovery Stories.Qualitative health research · 2022Article
- Mechanisms of action for stigma reduction among primary care providers following social contact with service users and aspirational figures in Nepal: an explanatory qualitative design.International journal of mental health systems · 2022Article
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objectiveThe engagement of peers and service users is increasingly emphasized in mental health clinical, educational, and research activities. A core means of engagement is via the sharing of recovery narratives, through which service users present their personal history of moving from psychiatric disability to recovery. We critically examine the range of contexts and purposes for which recovery narratives are elicited in global mental health.
methodWe present 4 case studies that represent the variability in recovery narrative elicitation, purpose, and geography: a mental health Gap Action Programme clinician training program in Nepal, an inpatient clinical service in Indian-controlled Kashmir, a recovery-oriented care program in urban Australia, and an undergraduate education program in the rural United States. In each case study, we explore the context, purpose, process of elicitation, content, and implications of incorporating recovery narratives.
resultsWithin each context, organizations engaging service users had a specific intention of what "recovery" should constitute. This was influenced by the anticipated audience for the recovery stories. These expectations influenced the types of service users included, narrative content, and training provided for service users to prepare and share narratives. Our cases illustrate the benefit of these coconstructed narratives and potential negative impacts on service users in some contexts, especially when used as a prerequisite for accessing or being discharged from clinical care. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Recovery narratives have the potential to be used productively across purposes and contexts when there is adequate identification of and responses to potential risks and challenges. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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