Experiential Knowledge of Mental Health Professionals : Service Users’ Perceptions

IF 0.6 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

European Journal of Mental Health Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.5708/ejmh.17.2022.3.2

Simona Karbouniaris, J. Wilken, Alie Weerman, T. Abma

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Abstract

Introduction: Nowadays the Western mental health system is in transformation to recovery-oriented and trauma informed care in which experiential knowledge becomes incorporated. An important development in this context is that traditional mental health professionals came to the fore with their lived experiences. From 2017 to 2021, a research project was conducted in the Netherlands in three mental health organizations, focussing on how service users perceive the professional use of experiential knowledge. Aims: This paper aims to explore service users’ perspectives regarding their healthcare professionals’ use of experiential knowledge and the users’ perceptions of how this contributes to their personal recovery. Methods: As part of the qualitative research, 22 service users were interviewed. A thematic analysis was employed to derive themes and patterns from the interview transcripts. Results: The use of experiential knowledge manifests in the quality of a compassionate user-professional relationship in which personal disclosures of the professional’s distress and resilience are embedded. This often stimulates users’ recovery process. Conclusions: Findings suggest that the use of experiential knowledge by mental health professionals like social workers, nurses and humanistic counselors, demonstrates an overall positive value as an additional (re)source.

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心理健康专业人员的经验知识:服务使用者的认知

导言:如今，西方的精神卫生系统正在转变为以康复为导向和创伤知情护理，其中经验知识被纳入。在这方面的一个重要发展是，传统的精神卫生专业人员以他们的生活经验脱颖而出。2017年至2021年，在荷兰的三个精神卫生组织开展了一个研究项目，重点关注服务使用者如何看待经验知识的专业使用。目的:本文旨在探讨服务用户对其医疗保健专业人员使用经验知识的看法，以及用户对这如何有助于其个人康复的看法。方法:作为定性研究的一部分，对22名服务用户进行访谈。采用主题分析从访谈笔录中得出主题和模式。结果:经验知识的使用体现在富有同情心的用户-专业关系的质量上，在这种关系中，专业人员的痛苦和弹性的个人披露是嵌入的。这通常会刺激用户的恢复过程。结论:研究结果表明，社会工作者、护士和人文咨询师等心理健康专业人员对经验知识的使用，作为一种额外(资源)来源，总体上显示出积极的价值。

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European Journal of Mental Health PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL-

CiteScore

0.70

自引率

14.30%

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期刊介绍： The European Journal of Mental Health, an open-access, peer reviewed, interdisciplinary, professional journal concerned with mental health, personal well-being and its supporting ecosystems that acknowledge the importance of people’s interactions with their environments, established in 2006, is published on 280 pages per volume in English and German by the Semmelweis University Institute of Mental Health. The journal’s professional oversight is provided by the Editor-in-Chief and an international Editorial Board, assisted by an Advisory Board. The semiannual journal, with issues appearing in June and December, is published in Budapest. The journal aims at the dissemination of the latest scientific research on mental health and well-being in Europe. It seeks novel, integrative and comprehensive, applied as well as theoretical articles that are inspiring for professionals and practitioners with different fields of interest: social and natural sciences, humanities and different segments of mental health research and practice. The primary thematic focus of EJMH is the social-ecological antecedents of mental health and foundations of human well-being. Most specifically, the journal welcomes contributions that present high-quality, original research findings on well-being and mental health across the lifespan and in historical perspective.