What does recovery from psychosis mean? Perceptions of young first-episode patients

Lam, May M.L.; Pearson, Veronica; Ng, Roger M. K.; Chiu, Chaw-Chi; Law, C.W.; Chen, Eric

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“…Through personal recovery, individuals search for new meanings and purposes in their life and experience growth, despite ongoing symptoms and secondary consequences, such as stigma [16]. Personal recovery is achieved as individuals rebuild their life and identity, regaining what they had lost [6,7]. This recovery is multidimensional [16], with different aspects of symptomatic, social, functional, and psychological recovery occurring, to varying degrees [17].…”

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Understanding Adaptation to First Episode Psychosis Through the Creation of Images

Attard

Larkin

Boden

et al. 2017

J. Psychosoc. Rehabil. Ment. Health

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This article aims to understand and explore the meaning of adaptation to First Episode Psychosis (FEP). An innovative method of data collection was used with ten participants who experienced FEP which integrated drawings of their lived experience within semi-structured interviews. The data were analysed through Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis and hermeneutic-phenomenological image analysis. Participants' experience was captured in four superordinate themes which identified that adaptation to FEP entailed: 'Finding out how psychosis fits into my story', 'Breaking free from psychosis', 'Fighting my way through psychosis', and 'Finding a new way of being 'me''. The participants' path of adaptation to FEP was an interplay of pains, challenges, and gains, and there was resonance with posttraumatic growth in their accounts. This article illustrates that creating images may offer a powerful way of conveying the multifaceted aspects of adaptation to FEP and could help individuals in communicating and processing their experience.

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“…Psychosis results in multiple losses of reality, identity, hope, security, and relationships [5][6][7][8]. The experience and reoccurrence of psychosis is associated with the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to the traumatic impact of psychotic symptoms, medication side effects, and hospital admissions [9].…”

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Understanding Adaptation to First Episode Psychosis Through the Creation of Images

Attard

Larkin

Boden

et al. 2017

J. Psychosoc. Rehabil. Ment. Health

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“…Service users feel entrapped when two parties have different views on matters, such as recovery goals, use of medication, need for psychiatric hospitalization, and what to tell and not tell the treating psychiatrist in followup appointments [52,53].…”

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Applying a Mental Health Recovery Approach for People from Diverse Backgrounds: The Case of Collectivism and Individualism Paradigms

Tse

2014

J. Psychosoc. Rehabil. Ment. Health

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Western countries have put the mental health recovery approach into practice since the 80 s, and other cultures have started to adopt it into their services. However, the cross-cultural application of the recovery approach has to be addressed, and individualistic-collectivistic values often take center stage in the debate. While people with individualistic value orientations place importance on personal goals, people with collectivistic value orientations see themselves and their goals as an inseparable part of a family or community. However such a simplistic view on the two values may polarize the differences rather than appreciate the intricacies and heterogeneity within and across people and cultures. This brief paper outlines how these two value paradigms may help and hinder recovery on a practical level. The present paper offers a framework for providing culturally responsive mental health service that adequately engages service users and families, thereby generating more dialogues on the topic.

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“…Only recently has research begun to explore patients' self-reported experiences of discrimination; all of the more recent studies have examined patients with long-standing psychiatric conditions (2,7,(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20). To the best of our knowledge, no study has specifically addressed the ways in which discrimination (that is, the behavioral component of stigma) affects the lives of persons experiencing a first episode of psychosis.…”

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The Role of Experienced and Anticipated Discrimination in the Lives of People With First-Episode Psychosis

Lasalvia¹,

Zoppei²,

Bonetto³

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What does recovery from psychosis mean? Perceptions of young first-episode patients

Abstract: Ideas about what constitutes recovery need to take account of patients' views and experience in order to emphasize therapeutic optimism rather than pessimism, and to inform treatment contexts and the views of medical staff.

Cited by 81 publications

References 35 publications

Understanding Adaptation to First Episode Psychosis Through the Creation of Images

Understanding Adaptation to First Episode Psychosis Through the Creation of Images

Applying a Mental Health Recovery Approach for People from Diverse Backgrounds: The Case of Collectivism and Individualism Paradigms

The Role of Experienced and Anticipated Discrimination in the Lives of People With First-Episode Psychosis

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