Recognition as a valued human being: Perspectives of mental health service users

Abstract

Sammendrag:Artikkelen tar for seg sårbarhet i relasjoner mellom psykiatriske tjenester og fagfolk som arbeider i kommunebaserte psykiske helsetjenester. Hensikten var å utforske hvordan brukerne av disse tjenestene beskrev og ga mening til sine møter med andre mennesker. Forskningen er et samarbeidsprosjekt mellom forskere og personer med erfaringsbasert kunnskap. Dataene er hentet fra 19 intervjuer med 11 personer som er avhengige av psykiske helsetjenester minst tre ganger i uken. Resultatene bekrefter at gjensidighet er grunnleggende for relasjoner. Det er viktig å anerkjenne den enkelte brukeren, og dette innebaerer et personlig engasjement hos den profesjonelle omsorgsyteren.Omsorgsbiblioteket har ikke tilgang til å publisere dette dokumentet i fulltekst. Kanskje ditt lokale bibliotek kan hjelpe deg, eller kanskje du kommer videre med lenken nedenfor.Relevant lenke: https://doi

Challenges in relating to mental health professionals: Perspectives of persons with severe mental illness

“…When mental health service users experience relating to others as a struggle to be recognized (Eriksen et al . ), or even experience living in existential loneliness (Nilsson et al . ), mutual recognition is lacking and the person's personhood and intrinsic value are at stake.…”

“We are All Fellow Human Beings”: Mental Health Workers’ Perspectives of Being in Relationships with Clients in Community-Based Mental Health Services

“…In this sense, recognition is proof of humanity, an experience of being a human being like other human beings (Ådnøy Eriksen et al, 2012).…”

“…Persons living with severe mental illness have been found to sometimes experience existential loneliness (Nilsson, Nåden, & Lindström, 2008) and to be engaged in an ongoing struggle to be recognized by other people (Ådnøy Eriksen et al, 2012). This may explain why recognition was understood by health workers as stretching beyond one's own perspectives and beyond being safe and comfortable.…”

“…Clients' perspectives were represented by findings and examples from an earlier study about clients' experiences of recognition (and lack of recognition) in relationships with health workers (Ådnøy Eriksen et al, 2013;Ådnøy Eriksen, Sundfør, Karlsson, Råholm, Arman, 2012), and the participants added clinical examples to that. It was a reflection process to explore what recognition of personhood and intrinsic human value may be about, and how this is understood and can be implemented in clinical work.…”

“She Offered Me a Place and a Future”: Change is an Event of Becoming Through Movement in Ethical Time and Space

“…When persons describe their difficulties it seems to be about their lives and experiences in various social arenas: family, work, friends, school, and society (Topor et al 2006(Topor et al , 2011. These difficulties could be interpreted as resulting from a feeling of not being recognized or as struggles for recognition (Andersen and Svensson 2012;Eriksen et al 2012) or in terms of feeling outside, or denied access to, social arenas and relations (Davidson et al 2001). Furthermore, their difficulties could be experienced as a kind of ''not knowing how to make their way in the world,'' like ''being stuck'' or in an ''impasse'' (Davidson et al 2010, p. 101 and p. 105), or like ''living in a maze'' or a ''social death'' (Biong and Ravndal 2009, p. 8), or ''feeling like a stranger in life and places'' (Andersen and Larsen 2012), or ''not belonging'' (Mezzina et al 2006).…”