The impact of mental health recovery narratives on recipients experiencing mental health problems: Qualitative analysis and change model.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mental health recovery narratives are stories of recovery from mental health problems. Narratives may impact in helpful and harmful ways on those who receive them. The objective of this paper is to develop a change model identifying the range of possible impacts and how they occur.

Method

Semi-structured interviews were conducted with adults with experience of mental health problems and recovery (n = 77). Participants were asked to share a mental health recovery narrative and to describe the impact of other people's recovery narratives on their own recovery. A change model was generated through iterative thematic analysis of transcripts.

Results

Change is initiated when a recipient develops a connection to a narrator or to the events descripted in their nar

SUBMITTER: Rennick-Egglestone S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6910821 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature