Social Processes of Young Adults' Recovery and Identity Formation during Life-Disruptive Mental Distress-A Meta-Ethnography.

ABSTRACT: Young people's mental health recovery is well-explored in empirical research, yet there is a lack of meta-studies synthesizing the characteristics of young people's recovery. This meta-ethnography explores young adults' recovery during life-disruptive experiences of early psychosis or schizophrenia. Based on a systematic literature review search, 11 empirical qualitative studies were included for synthesis. Inspired by young people's prominent experience of social isolation in the included studies, we applied an interpretive lens of belonging deriving from the sociology of youth. The synthesis presents five themes: (1) expectations of progression in youth in contrast with stagnation during psychosis, (2) feeling isolated, lost and left behind, (3) young adults' recovery involves belonging

SUBMITTER: Storm IMS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10487737 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature