Strategic Storytelling: An Exploration of the Professional Practices of Mental Health Peer Providers
Strategic Storytelling: An Exploration of the Professional Practices of Mental Health Peer Providers
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DOI：
10.1177/1049732318821689
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发表时间：
2019-07-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Mancini, Michael A.
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作者：
Mancini, Michael A.
心理健康服务的同行提供者使用他们的个人疾病和恢复叙述来帮助其他心理健康服务用户。尽管大量的证据支持这些提供者的有效性，很少有人知道他们在专业实践中采用的基本策略。在这项研究中，我对23名同事进行了深入采访，以探索他们在与他人的日常工作中使用的最重要的做法。结果表明，同行从事的反射过程中，战略性地使用他们的个人疾病和恢复的故事，以帮助他人重新讲述他们的生活叙事。同行们还使用来自动机和认知行为治疗方法的沟通策略来吸引、激励和指导其他服务用户。研究结果表明，需要进一步探讨同行使用叙事方法的修辞策略的研究。开发和测试专业发展机会，以帮助同行最大限度地发挥其治疗潜力也是必要的。
Peer providers of mental health services use their personal illness and recovery narratives to help other mental health service users. Despite a substantial body of evidence supporting the effectiveness of these providers, little is known about the underlying strategies they employ in their professional practice. In this study, I used in-depth interviews with 23 peers to explore the most important practices they used in their day-to-day work with others. Results indicated that peers engaged in a reflexive process to strategically use their personal illness and recovery stories to help others re-story their life narratives. Peers also used communication strategies from motivational and cognitive-behavioral treatment approaches to engage, inspire, and mentor other service users. Findings suggest the need for research that further explores the rhetorical strategies used by peers using narrative methods. The development and testing of professional development opportunities to assist peers in maximizing their therapeutic potential are also warranted.