Making recovery meaningful for people with intellectual disabilities

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BACKGROUND: A recovery approach within mental health services has gained momentum. Its meaning for adults with intellectual disabilities recovering from mental health disorders is less understood. Peoples' experiences of recovery were explored to help inform recovery-focused recommendations for clinical practise.

METHOD: A qualitative design using interpretative phenomenological analysis was applied. Nine interviews with people with intellectual disabilities who had experienced mental health disorders were conducted.

RESULTS: Two themes that emerged focusing on entry to service and the recovery experience. Subthemes for entry to service included unfair treatment, valuing information and managing expectations. The recovery experience subthemes were therapeutic alliance, self-management, emotional development, autonomy, connectedness, positive identity and a belief in recovery.

CONCLUSIONS: Hearing peoples' experiences directly allowed the current themes to emerge in the context of living with lifelong disabilities. This article adds to the sparse literature and highlights considerations for recovery-based interventions for people with intellectual disabilities.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:35

Enthalten in:

Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID - 35(2022), 1 vom: 15. Jan., Seite 252-260

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Trustam, Emma [VerfasserIn]
Chapman, Philippa [VerfasserIn]
Shanahan, Paul [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

Intellectual disabilities
Journal Article
Mental health
Recovery
Social inclusion
Wellbeing

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 21.12.2021

Date Revised 21.12.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/jar.12944

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM332168085