Professional roles in transformation through sharing rituals: a critical ethnographic study of Norwegian Recovery Colleges.

ABSTRACT: Recovery colleges (RCs) represent an innovation in mental health services. Facilitators with experiential knowledge or formal mental health training collaborate with students with lived experience or formal training to deliver courses in RCs. This paper examines the transformation of roles when co-creating new mental health services. We conducted a critical ethnographic study, collecting data from participatory observations in RCs at two locations and interviews with facilitators with formal mental health training and those with experiential knowledge. Drawing on "communitas" and "social ties," we analyse the social dynamics of co-creation practices in RCs. Our findings reveal that traditional service roles and normative structures in mental health services are dissolved or redefined throu

SUBMITTER: Sjursæther TE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11889808 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature