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Mimicking family like attributes to enable a state of personal recovery for persons with mental illness in institutional care settings

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Title
Mimicking family like attributes to enable a state of personal recovery for persons with mental illness in institutional care settings
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International Journal of Mental Health Systems, August 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13033-015-0022-x
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Vandana Gopikumar, Kamala Easwaran, Mrinalini Ravi, Nirmal Jude, Joske Bunders

Abstract

The convergence between mental ill health and homelessness is well documented, but critical events that precipitate the downward spiral into homelessness, and promote personal recovery remain only partially explored in India. To explore causative factors of the descent into homelessness, and gain insight into creative and innovative approaches that promote personal recovery, specifically in institutional care settings. This qualitative study used focus group discussions, detailed personal interviews and anonymised data drawn from patient files. The data were analysed using phenomenological approaches. Findings suggest that besides poverty and deprivation, death of the primary caregiver is a critical event in precipitating distress and a breakdown in the family, leading to a loss of support systems and a sense of belongingness, and rendering persons with mental illness homeless. Social affiliations, kinship, congruence between the real and ideal self, and the drive to assume a more powerful identity and/or pursue self-actualisation emerged as key factors aiding personal recovery. In the absence of a family, mimicking its attributes appears to ground institutions and professionals in an ethos of responsiveness and user-centricity, thereby promoting personal recovery. This study highlights the critical need to further explore and understand the nature of distress and descent into homelessness, and gain insight into caregiver strain and strategies that can be developed to reduce the same. It further emphasizes the need to shed light on individual strategies that help pursue wellbeing, and delve deeper into the application of value frameworks in institutions and their role in promoting personal recovery among persons with mental health issues.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 76 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 17 22%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 14%
Researcher 7 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 9%
Student > Bachelor 6 8%
Other 8 11%
Unknown 20 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 15 20%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 14%
Social Sciences 11 14%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 9%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 3%
Other 9 12%
Unknown 21 28%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 August 2015.
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#14,693,880
of 22,824,164 outputs
Outputs from International Journal of Mental Health Systems
#514
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#145,120
of 266,186 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Mental Health Systems
#7
of 10 outputs
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