Les conceptions du rétablissement chez des femmes fréquentant une ressource communautaire en santé mentale
Since deinstitutionalization, many approaches and ways to treat mental health issues has emerged, as well as methods to support the ones affected by such illnesses. Some have evolved, others have disappeared and some news approaches appeared. From the time of psychiatric rehabilitation, we have wanted to promote autonomy and people’s relational abilities, because those were skills that facilitate social reinsertion. We believed this for a while, and some of us still believe, to this day, in your society. It’s only later, when no one had any interest in keeping mentally ill, patient inside of psychiatric facilities, that new values and attitudes started to emerge. We were then still encouraging autonomous and social skills, as well as aiming improvement in self-determination, formations work, life projects and acquisition of all competences that promote personal and social well-being. Then, we have started taking the patient’s opinion regarding the care received into account. Then, arrived the idea of recovery hint mental health. The concept was, at first seen as a new era, then as a philosophy then as on approach. For many authors, recovery in seen as a movement that incites people to initiate introspection, allowing them to experience success in the world. Those the movements are described in the book: Les deux mouvements de l’être (Corin, Poirel et Rodriguez Del Barrio, 2011). For those who, like me, agree with this was of seeing alternative approach will without a doubt consider that it is the best way of promoting rehabilitation. For others, rehabilitation should aim towards psychosocial rehabilitation. This memoir, without telling us how to promote rehabilitation, is focused on the opinion of those who are the most involved, the people living with mental illnesses. It is a study on mentally ill people’s points of view regarding their own recovery. Although we already have studied some insight focuses on those people’s opinions, this study focuses on the recovery of eleven women that went through challenging situations and explains how they overcame them and eventually recovered. Those testimonials exhibit the importance of self-realization, feelings of accomplishment and self-determination within the conception they have of their own recovery. So, we can better identify people’s needs and understand their own individual recovery, and how it fakes place in the individual’s life.
mental health issues the concept of recovery people’s point of view realization self-determination