Contact with recovered peers: buffering disempowering service experiences and promoting personal recovery in serious mental illness.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Mental health patients can experience involuntary treatment as disempowering and stigmatising, and contact with recovered peers is cited as important for countering stigma and fostering agency and autonomy integral to recovery. AIMS:To advance understanding of the interaction between involuntary treatment and contact with recovered peers, and explore hypothesised relationships to mechanisms of self-evaluation relevant to recovery. METHOD:Eighty-nine adults diagnosed with serious mental illness completed items to assess involuntary treatment experience and the extent of prior contact with recovered peers, the Internalised Stigma of Mental Illness Scale, the Self-efficacy for Personal Recovery Scale, the Questionnaire about the Process of Recovery and relevant demographic and clin

SUBMITTER: McLeod B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6854358 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature