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Frisk i en sjuk värld? Förståelse av psykisk ohälsa inom organisationer för personer med psykisk ohälsa

Peterson von Ekensteen, Ida LU (2017) GNVM03 20171
Department of Gender Studies
Abstract
The purpose of this essay is to investigate how organizations working for people with mental illness regards mental illness and the situation for people with mental illness in relation to society. Using the method of idea- and ideology analysis I examine websites and documents produced by the organizations. In addition to this material I also use two focus group interviews, which I’ve conducted on one organization. Throughout my analysis, consisting of ten different themes, I found patterns of three kinds of orientations on how the organizations look at mental illness. These shows that there are service-oriented organization which regard mental illness both from a social- and medical perspective, social policy-oriented organizations... (More)
The purpose of this essay is to investigate how organizations working for people with mental illness regards mental illness and the situation for people with mental illness in relation to society. Using the method of idea- and ideology analysis I examine websites and documents produced by the organizations. In addition to this material I also use two focus group interviews, which I’ve conducted on one organization. Throughout my analysis, consisting of ten different themes, I found patterns of three kinds of orientations on how the organizations look at mental illness. These shows that there are service-oriented organization which regard mental illness both from a social- and medical perspective, social policy-oriented organizations looking at mental illness from a social and political-perspective and the norm critical organizations regarding mental illness from a mad- and crip perspective. (Less)
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author
Peterson von Ekensteen, Ida LU
supervisor
organization
course
GNVM03 20171
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Psykisk ohälsa, Organisationer, Funktionsvariationer, Mad, Crip, Mental health, Organizations, Disability
language
Swedish
id
8911433
date added to LUP
2017-06-15 11:36:57
date last changed
2017-06-15 11:36:57
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  abstract     = {{The purpose of this essay is to investigate how organizations working for people with mental illness regards mental illness and the situation for people with mental illness in relation to society. Using the method of idea- and ideology analysis I examine websites and documents produced by the organizations. In addition to this material I also use two focus group interviews, which I’ve conducted on one organization. Throughout my analysis, consisting of ten different themes, I found patterns of three kinds of orientations on how the organizations look at mental illness. These shows that there are service-oriented organization which regard mental illness both from a social- and medical perspective, social policy-oriented organizations looking at mental illness from a social and political-perspective and the norm critical organizations regarding mental illness from a mad- and crip perspective.}},
  author       = {{Peterson von Ekensteen, Ida}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Frisk i en sjuk värld? Förståelse av psykisk ohälsa inom organisationer för personer med psykisk ohälsa}},
  year         = {{2017}},
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