Piat Myra, Sabetti Judith, Couture Audrey, Sylvestre John, Provencher Helene, Botschner Janos, Stayner David
Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Psychiatr Rehabil J. 2009 Winter;32(3):199-207. doi: 10.2975/32.3.2009.199.207.
The objective of this study was to explore the meaning of recovery from the perspectives of consumers receiving mental health services in Canada.
Sixty semi-structured interviews were conducted with 54 mental health consumers in Montreal, Québec City and Waterloo-Guelph, Ontario.
Two contrasting meanings of recovery emerged. The first definition strongly attached recovery to illness while the second definition linked recovery to self-determination and taking responsibility for life.
The prominence of biomedical definitions of recovery suggests the need to find common ground between these two perspectives, if conceptualizations of recovery are to include the views of consumers who routinely experience the mental health system.
本研究的目的是从加拿大接受心理健康服务的消费者的角度探讨康复的意义。
对蒙特利尔、魁北克市和安大略省滑铁卢 - 圭尔夫的54名心理健康消费者进行了60次半结构化访谈。
出现了两种截然不同的康复意义。第一个定义将康复与疾病紧密相连,而第二个定义则将康复与自我决定和对生活负责联系起来。
康复的生物医学定义的突出表明,如果康复的概念要包括经常体验心理健康系统的消费者的观点,就需要在这两种观点之间找到共同点。