Professional role(s) in the empowerment process: "Working with" mental health consumers.

Freund, Paul D.

doi:10.1037/h0095674

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“…The participants’ experiences with the recreation team provide many examples of empowering processes, evidenced in their descriptions of making choices and effecting change in their lives (Fisher, 1994b; Chamberlin, 1997), as well as gaining skills in a real‐life context (Townsend, 1996). Further, the social links formed between the consumer‐staff members working together reflect Freund's (1993) view of empowerment as a process whereby people become ‘increasingly interdependent with other(s)’ (p. 68). Participants’ accounts of experiencing teamwork included descriptions of working together such as ‘supporting’ and ‘negotiating’, described elsewhere as empowering processes (Connelly, Keele, Schneider & Cobb, 1993).…”

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Working in a community recreation program: A study of consumer‐staff perspectives

Yuen

Fossey

2003

Aus Occup Therapy J

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Consumers working as service providers make unique contributions to the quality, accessibility, and responsiveness of mental health services. Relatively little research has explored these roles. This study used a naturalistic inquiry methodology to explore consumer-staff views of working in a program that assists people living with mental illness to access recreation. Three consumer-staff were interviewed about the rewards and challenges of their work. Qualitative analysis of participants' views identified eight themes: (i) wanting purposeful activity; (ii) the importance of work; (iii) rewards of helping others; (iv) re-establishing social networks;(v) gaining a sense of belonging; (vi) experiencing teamwork; (vii) challenges of working; and (viii) maintaining well-being. These findings suggest consumer-provider initiatives may create occupational opportunities and facilitate empowerment of consumers in provider roles. A team approach, clear roles, appropriate remuneration and support are central to achieving these benefits. Occupational therapists should advocate for, and support such initiatives that empower consumers in overcoming barriers to meaningful occupation. K E Y W O R D S consumer empowerment, mental health services, enabling occupation.

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Working in a community recreation program: A study of consumer‐staff perspectives

Yuen

Fossey

2003

Aus Occup Therapy J

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“…This empowernient stance aniong fanlilies with mentally ill mernbers has evolved over time as a psychiatric rehabilitation response to the need created as mentally ill people were discharged from mental hospitals. The empowerment approach centers on improving consumers' relatedness to society so that they can further act in their own behalf, remaining as independent in the community as is consistent with humane care (Freund, 1993;Kisthardt, 1992;Rappaport, 1985). This approach to advocacy promotes client self-determination in psychosocial rehabilitation (Moxley & Freddolino, 1990) and is a "client-driven" model of service delivery (Freddolino & Moxley, 1992, p. 337;Piazza, 1989).…”

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Family involvement in mental health care for older adults: From caregiving to advocacy and empowerment.

Greene¹

1995

Emerging Issues in Mental Health and Aging.

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he full promise of professionals and family members of older adults with mental illness participating as partners in care, thereby encouraging maximum functioning of older adults, has yet to be realized. A critical question is why many older adults do not make use of existing mental health services, whereas others do not have the services they desire (Speer, Williams, West, & Dupree, 1991). At the same time, elderly mentally ill people in family settings-especially the many families who are primary caregivers-have serious unmet needs. Research can give further clarity to mental health caregiving in a family context and to involvement of families as advocates in increasing access to mental health services.Although the family's Herculean role in providing care to elderly family members is well recognized, more must be done to ensure that families have a formal role in the health care system (Pfeiffer, 1990). Without sufficient community-based treatments, adult children-who provide most of the daily instrumental care such as cooking or bathing for their older parents-are providing more care, more difficult care, and over much longer periods, often leading to caregiver burden. Clearly, the grow-The author thanks Mary Stanley, research librarian, for her assistance.

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“…The empowerment concept has been extended to all the family when it includes a child with a disability. This is particularly true for families with children with serious development disorders: family members have to be informed and participate in the planning and delivery of the therapy to their children [ 16 ]. The concept of TA too may be extended in this case to all the actors that take care of the child: family members, personal assistants, teachers, therapists, clinicians, and psychologists.…”

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Thea: empowering the therapeutic alliance of children with ASD by multimedia interaction

Francese

Risi

Tortora

et al. 2021

Multimed Tools Appl

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The Therapeutic Alliance (TA) between patient and health provider (therapist or clinician) is one of the most relevant factors for the success of a therapy. In the case of people suffering from Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), the alliance is extended to all the people involved in their care (i.e., teachers, therapists, clinicians, relatives). In this paper, we propose a multimedia application named Thea for empowering the TA of children with ASD by improving the communication among the TA members, sharing guidelines, multimedia contents, and strategies to comply with challenging behaviors and progress with particular attention towards end-users who are occasional smart-users. A detailed process for empowering the TA members by enhancing the informed interaction among all of them is proposed and implemented. A vocal assistant also supports patients/caregivers and therapists in documenting their activity with the person with ASD by recording videos in a free-hand modality. After a contextual analysis based on Thematic Analysis Template, Thea has been implemented using a user-centered development approach. We performed three iterations involving the end-users. A user study is performed at the third iteration. Results of the user study revealed a positive attitude towards the application. In particular, the perception of empowerment of participants increased after the tool had been used. We also highlighted the guidelines and tools that may be adopted for empowering different kinds of patients. The first results seem to suggest that the use of Thea may increase the belief of the caregivers of a person with ASD to be able to better take care of her, in a more controlled and informed way.

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Professional role(s) in the empowerment process: "Working with" mental health consumers.

Cited by 32 publications

References 8 publications

Working in a community recreation program: A study of consumer‐staff perspectives

Working in a community recreation program: A study of consumer‐staff perspectives

Family involvement in mental health care for older adults: From caregiving to advocacy and empowerment.

Thea: empowering the therapeutic alliance of children with ASD by multimedia interaction

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