The Janus Influence and Discovering a Life

ISBN-13: 9783838353210 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 264 str.

Helen Warren

Opis

This grounded study examines how people who are dually diagnosed with a major mental illness and substance use disorder recover their lives from a past of intemperate insanity and discover a world in a rich and productive present. Thirty participants, including consumers, staff and families, took part in the study. Additional slices of data were retrieved from the analysis of six policy documents and 72 hours of participant observation. All data were constantly compared and analysed using Glasers emergent approach to grounded theory. Research and literature on those with coexisting disorders has been dominated by the medical model with a focus on assessment, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation both in addiction and mental health settings. Whilst these aspects of management of coexisting disorders are important, this acute phase of intervention represents only a small fragment of a persons life. These people are not their disease, and the coexisting disorders are not the totality of their being. Discovering a life was an emergent theme that formed the basic core category.

O autorze

Helen Warren is a Registered Comprehensive Nurse and Addictions Counsellor. She has a Masters degree and PhD in medical sociology with a focus on coexisting mental health and substance abuse disorders. She is currently employed as a senior lecturer at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT).