2009
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-009-9128-4
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Schizophrenia, Narrative and Change: Andalusian Care Homes as Novel Sociocultural Context

Abstract: This study explores qualitative changes in the life narratives of persons diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia who were receiving recovery treatment in special care homes in Andalusia, Spain. These narratives are related to patients' construction of social identity and the recovery process. Initially, 10 narrative interviews were performed. The first five patients (Group 1) had lived at the homes for only 3 months, while the other five (Group 2) had been there for 61.4 months. Two years after the initial inte… Show more

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“…This context influences positively work dynamics, facilitates social interactions and can provide new communicative skills to users. As the reader may appreciate in the selected extract below, the participantobserver reflects on the personal experience while constructing new meanings around recovery [18]. what concerns them, about their problems… For example, a service user that had children was worried about them but instead she wrote a wonderful poem.…”
Section: Extractmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This context influences positively work dynamics, facilitates social interactions and can provide new communicative skills to users. As the reader may appreciate in the selected extract below, the participantobserver reflects on the personal experience while constructing new meanings around recovery [18]. what concerns them, about their problems… For example, a service user that had children was worried about them but instead she wrote a wonderful poem.…”
Section: Extractmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…En este sentido, las actividades artísticas de las personas con TMG o diversidad funcional, deben salir fuera de los recursos específicos o de la práctica individual para fundirse en la comunidad. La práctica creativa debe ayudar a todas las personasa reconstruir su identidad tal como lo describíamos anteriormente (Crawford, Brown, Baker, Tischler y Abrams, 2015; Saavedra, Cubero, Crawford, 2009;Saavedra y Rodríguez, 2008;Saavedra, 2009). Y desde luego, ayudar a expresar y entender experiencias y emociones.…”
Section: La Práctica Creativa Como "Recuperación Mutua"unclassified
“…El contexto de la vida cotidiana ha sido identificado por diversos investigadores como esencial para que los pacientes adquieran algún grado de control sobre sus vidas (Saavedra, 2009). Las rutinas diarias y los hábitos relacionados con el hogar no sólo acercan a los pacientes a una vida normalizada, sino que ofrecen un espacio para que estos pacientes puedan tomar decisiones sencillas y básicas sobre la propia vida.…”
Section: Recuperación Identidad Y Control Sobre La Propia Vidaunclassified
“…Y por otra parte, hallamos historias de resistencia, de pequeños éxitos y alegrías, de búsqueda de sentido y de construcción de una identidad compatible con el mundo social mediante los contactos personales más cercanos y las actividades diarias. Son estas experiencias diarias, que pueden parecer insignificantes, las que sostienen el proceso de recuperación de los pacientes (Boydell, Gladstone, Volpe, 2003;Jenkins, Carpenter-Song, 2006;Ridgway, 2001;Roe, Davidson, 2005;Saavedra 2009). …”
Section: Recuperación Identidad Y Control Sobre La Propia Vidaunclassified
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