Brukermedvirkning i psykiatriske institusjoner. Praktisering av ”brukermedvirkning” gjennom miljøterapeutiske aktiviteter

The purpose of this article is to examine how user participation is enabled in practice. Fieldwork is conducted in three Norwegian District Psychiatric Centres (DPCs), with an emphasis on observations of staff working with patients and interviews. The theoretical framework is interactionism. The dat...

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Main Authors: Vår Mathisen, Aud Obstfelder, Geir Lorem, Per Måseide
Format: Article
Language:Danish
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2015-12-01
Series:Nordisk Tidsskrift for Helseforskning
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Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/helseforsk/article/view/3710
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description The purpose of this article is to examine how user participation is enabled in practice. Fieldwork is conducted in three Norwegian District Psychiatric Centres (DPCs), with an emphasis on observations of staff working with patients and interviews. The theoretical framework is interactionism. The data analysis shows that efforts to involve patients in activities related to their own illness and their stay at the centres are integrated into the work. The findings show that much time is spent on motivating patients to want to live. Practicing of user participation in combination with milieu therapy creates dilemmas. The staff must balance between the various considerations in their work: to motivate individual patients to live and to ensure that daily routines and milieu therapeutic joint activities are implemented. Such dilemmas give the staff a feeling of inadequacy in the practice of user participation. Because, either they must pressure patients to do things against their will or reject individual wishes for adapted services to get the daily routines to go round.
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spelling doaj.art-9f5a6dd85813475b8efccf4b05f31abc2024-04-16T13:52:31ZdanSeptentrio Academic PublishingNordisk Tidsskrift for Helseforskning1504-36141891-29822015-12-0111210.7557/14.37103455Brukermedvirkning i psykiatriske institusjoner. Praktisering av ”brukermedvirkning” gjennom miljøterapeutiske aktiviteterVår Mathisen0Aud Obstfelder1Geir Lorem2Per Måseide3UiT Norges Arktiske UniversitetUiT Norges Arktiske UniversitetUiT Norges Arktiske UniversitetUniversitetet i NordlandThe purpose of this article is to examine how user participation is enabled in practice. Fieldwork is conducted in three Norwegian District Psychiatric Centres (DPCs), with an emphasis on observations of staff working with patients and interviews. The theoretical framework is interactionism. The data analysis shows that efforts to involve patients in activities related to their own illness and their stay at the centres are integrated into the work. The findings show that much time is spent on motivating patients to want to live. Practicing of user participation in combination with milieu therapy creates dilemmas. The staff must balance between the various considerations in their work: to motivate individual patients to live and to ensure that daily routines and milieu therapeutic joint activities are implemented. Such dilemmas give the staff a feeling of inadequacy in the practice of user participation. Because, either they must pressure patients to do things against their will or reject individual wishes for adapted services to get the daily routines to go round.https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/helseforsk/article/view/3710User participationmental health workfield researchmilieu therapydilemmasBrukermedvirkning
spellingShingle Vår Mathisen
Aud Obstfelder
Geir Lorem
Per Måseide
Brukermedvirkning i psykiatriske institusjoner. Praktisering av ”brukermedvirkning” gjennom miljøterapeutiske aktiviteter
Nordisk Tidsskrift for Helseforskning
User participation
mental health work
field research
milieu therapy
dilemmas
Brukermedvirkning
title Brukermedvirkning i psykiatriske institusjoner. Praktisering av ”brukermedvirkning” gjennom miljøterapeutiske aktiviteter
title_full Brukermedvirkning i psykiatriske institusjoner. Praktisering av ”brukermedvirkning” gjennom miljøterapeutiske aktiviteter
title_fullStr Brukermedvirkning i psykiatriske institusjoner. Praktisering av ”brukermedvirkning” gjennom miljøterapeutiske aktiviteter
title_full_unstemmed Brukermedvirkning i psykiatriske institusjoner. Praktisering av ”brukermedvirkning” gjennom miljøterapeutiske aktiviteter
title_short Brukermedvirkning i psykiatriske institusjoner. Praktisering av ”brukermedvirkning” gjennom miljøterapeutiske aktiviteter
title_sort brukermedvirkning i psykiatriske institusjoner praktisering av brukermedvirkning gjennom miljoterapeutiske aktiviteter
topic User participation
mental health work
field research
milieu therapy
dilemmas
Brukermedvirkning
url https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/helseforsk/article/view/3710
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