Yale Medical School, West Haven, CT, USA.
Psychiatr Rehabil J. 2012 Dec;35(6):441-6. doi: 10.1037/h0094577.
The complexity of the concept of mental health recovery often makes it difficult to systematically examine recovery processes and outcomes. The concept of social role is inherent within many acknowledged dimensions of recovery such as community integration, family relationships, and peer support and can deepen our understanding of these dimensions when social roles are operationalized in ways that directly relate to recovery research and practice.
This paper reviews seminal social role theories and operationalizes aspects of social roles: role investment, role perception, role loss, and role gain. The paper provides a critical analysis of the ability of social role concepts to inform mental health recovery research and practice.
PubMed and PsychInfo databases were used for the literature review.
A more thorough examination of social role aspects allows for a richer picture of recovery domains that are structured by the concept social roles. Increasing understanding of consumers' investment and changes in particular roles, perceptions of consumers' role performance relative to peers, and consumers' hopes for the future with regards to the different roles that they occupy could generate tangible, pragmatic approaches in addressing complex recovery domains.
This deeper understanding allows a more nuanced approach to recovery-related movements in mental health system transformation.
心理健康康复概念的复杂性常常使得系统地检查康复过程和结果变得困难。社会角色的概念存在于许多公认的康复维度之中，如社区融合、家庭关系、同伴支持，并且当社会角色以与康复研究和实践直接相关的方式运作时，可以深化我们对这些维度的理解。
本文回顾了重要的社会角色理论，并对社会角色的各个方面进行了操作化处理：角色投入、角色感知、角色丧失和角色获得。本文对社会角色概念在为心理健康康复研究和实践提供信息方面的能力进行了批判性分析。
使用 PubMed 和 PsychInfo 数据库进行文献回顾。
更深入地考察社会角色方面，可以更全面地了解由社会角色概念所构成的康复领域。加深对消费者投入和特定角色变化的理解，了解消费者相对于同伴的角色表现的看法，以及消费者对未来不同角色的期望，可以为解决复杂的康复领域提供切实可行的方法。
这种更深入的理解可以使心理健康系统转型中与康复相关的运动更加细致入微。
