'It's like someone is holding your hand, an invisible hand' : A grounded theory study of participation and personal recovery in Flexible Assertive Community Treatment
(2024) In Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy 31(1).- Abstract
BACKGROUND: Participation in everyday life and personal recovery is often adversely affected for individuals with complex mental health needs. Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) is a recovery-oriented service targeting participation in everyday life and personal recovery and is thus important to understand from the perspectives of service users.
AIM: To explore how service users experience the care and support they receive from FACT as facilitating processes of participation in everyday life and in their personal recovery process.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: A constructivist Grounded Theory approach was employed, involving 14 in-depth interviews conducted from January to November 2023 with FACT service users (9 women,... (More)
BACKGROUND: Participation in everyday life and personal recovery is often adversely affected for individuals with complex mental health needs. Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) is a recovery-oriented service targeting participation in everyday life and personal recovery and is thus important to understand from the perspectives of service users.
AIM: To explore how service users experience the care and support they receive from FACT as facilitating processes of participation in everyday life and in their personal recovery process.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: A constructivist Grounded Theory approach was employed, involving 14 in-depth interviews conducted from January to November 2023 with FACT service users (9 women, 5 men; 23-55 years) within the Swedish adult general Mental Health Services.
RESULTS: The process of Building genuine relationships between participants and FACT team members enabled Doing as a way of recovering. This was facilitated by how FACT was organised, promoting continuity and flexibility in care and support.
CONCLUSIONS AND SIGNIFICANCE: This study contributes to a greater understanding of how genuine relationships between FACT service users and team members provide opportunities for participation and doing as a means for personal recovery. The results underscore the significance of incorporating an occupational therapy perspective into recovery-oriented services.
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- Borgh, Madeleine LU ; Bejerholm, Ulrika LU ; Argentzell, Elisabeth LU and Lexén, Annika LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024-10-23
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
- subject
- keywords
- Humans, Grounded Theory, Male, Female, Adult, Middle Aged, Community Mental Health Services, Sweden, Occupational Therapy/methods, Mental Disorders/rehabilitation, Qualitative Research, Interviews as Topic
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- Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy
- volume
- 31
- issue
- 1
- article number
- 2421363
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
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- scopus:85208166128
- pmid:39472152
- ISSN
- 1651-2014
- DOI
- 10.1080/11038128.2024.2421363
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 1dfe02fa-1430-43e0-82f7-4650fbd13d05
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