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The impact of mental health recovery narratives on recipients experiencing mental health problems: Qualitative analysis and change model.
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- Not the story you want? Assessing the fit of a conceptual framework characterising mental health recovery narratives.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2020Pooled it
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- How to Tell a Recovery Story 'Professionally'? Issues Related to the Transformation of Personal Stories During a Training for Becoming a Peer Support Worker.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026Article
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- Addressing Potential Researcher Distress in Nurse-Led Research: Ethical Considerations and Practical Strategies.Journal of advanced nursing · 2025Review
- Research Into Digital Health Intervention for Mental Health: 25-Year Retrospective on the Ethical and Legal Challenges.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- The Implementation of Recommender Systems for Mental Health Recovery Narratives: Evaluation of Use and Performance.JMIR mental health · 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
- Perception and appropriation of a web-based recovery narratives intervention: qualitative interview study.Frontiers in digital health · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundMental health recovery narratives are stories of recovery from mental health problems. Narratives may impact in helpful and harmful ways on those who receive them. The objective of this paper is to develop a change model identifying the range of possible impacts and how they occur.
methodSemi-structured interviews were conducted with adults with experience of mental health problems and recovery (n = 77). Participants were asked to share a mental health recovery narrative and to describe the impact of other people's recovery narratives on their own recovery. A change model was generated through iterative thematic analysis of transcripts.
resultsChange is initiated when a recipient develops a connection to a narrator or to the events descripted in their narrative. Change is mediated by the recipient recognising experiences shared with the narrator, noticing the achievements or difficulties of the narrator, learning how recovery happens, or experiencing emotional release. Helpful outcomes of receiving recovery narratives are connectedness, validation, hope, empowerment, appreciation, reference shift and stigma reduction. Harmful outcomes are a sense of inadequacy, disconnection, pessimism and burden. Impact is positively moderated by the perceived authenticity of the narrative, and can be reduced if the recipient is experiencing a crisis.
conclusionsInterventions that incorporate the use of recovery narratives, such as peer support, anti-stigma campaigns and bibliotherapy, can use the change model to maximise benefit and minimise harms from narratives. Interventions should incorporate a diverse range of narratives available through different mediums to enable a range of recipients to connect with and benefit from this material. Service providers using recovery narratives should preserve authenticity so as to maximise impact, for example by avoiding excessive editing.
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