Understanding recovery in the context of lived experience of personality disorders: a collaborative, qualitative research study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Concepts of recovery increasingly inform the development and delivery of mental health services internationally. In the UK recent policy advocates the application of recovery concepts to the treatment of personality disorders. However diagnosis and understanding of personality disorders remains contested, challenging any assumption that mainstream recovery thinking can be directly translated into personality disorders services.

Methods

In a qualitative interview-based study understandings of recovery were explored in extended, in-depth interviews with six people purposively sampled from a specialist personality disorders' service in the UK. An interpretive, collaborative approach to research was adopted in which university-, clinical- and service user (consumer) r

SUBMITTER: Gillard S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4521354 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature