Ørjasæter Kristin Berre, Stickley Theodore, Hedlund Marianne, Ness Ottar
a Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences , Nord University , Bodø , Norway.
b Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences , Norwegian University of Science and Technology , Trondheim , Norway.
Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being. 2017;12(sup2):1379339. doi: 10.1080/17482631.2017.1379339.
There is a growing understanding that mental health problems and prolonged contact with mental healthcare systems can affect people's identities. Working with identity is an important element in mental health recovery.
In this article, we explore the significance of participation in a music and theatre workshop in terms of people`s experiences of identity.
This is a qualitative study based on a hermeneutical phenomenological epistemology. Data were collected from in-depth interviews with 11 participants at a music and theater workshop, analysed through a narrative analysis and presented in an ideographical "long" narrative form. The music and theater workshop is not overtly therapeutic although the activity takes place in a Norwegian mental health hospital for adults living with long-term mental health problems.
We identified three crosscutting themes: (1) becoming a whole person, (2) being allowed to hold multiple identities and (3) exploring diverse perspectives.
Findings show that participation in the music and theatre workshop transformed the participants' experiences of identity on two levels: individually and collectively. The participants developed a broader picture of themselves through their creative work with others. When they developed new identities, the narratives of themselves expanded.
人们越来越认识到心理健康问题以及与精神卫生保健系统的长期接触会影响人们的身份认同。应对身份认同问题是心理健康康复的一个重要因素。
在本文中，我们从人们的身份认同体验角度探讨参与音乐与戏剧工作坊的意义。
这是一项基于诠释现象学认识论的定性研究。数据收集自对一个音乐与戏剧工作坊的11名参与者的深度访谈，通过叙事分析进行分析，并以表意的“长”叙事形式呈现。该音乐与戏剧工作坊并非明显具有治疗性，尽管活动是在一家为患有长期心理健康问题的成年人设立的挪威精神卫生医院开展的。
我们确定了三个贯穿性主题：（1）成为完整的人，（2）被允许拥有多重身份，（3）探索多元视角。
研究结果表明，参与音乐与戏剧工作坊在个体和集体两个层面改变了参与者的身份认同体验。参与者通过与他人的创造性合作，对自己有了更全面的认识。当他们形成新的身份认同时，他们对自己的叙述也得到了扩展。
