A participatory discourse analysis of service users’ accounts of meeting places in Norwegian community mental health care
Since the 1960s, deinstitutionalisation has been salient in mental health reforms across the West. In Norway, this culminated in the National Action Plan for Mental Health (1999-2008), where meeting places in community mental health care were deemed a prioritised strategy to counter social isolation...
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| author | Lill Susann Ynnesdal Haugen Andreas Andreas Envy Tor-Johan Ekeland Marit Borg Norman Anderssen |
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| description | Since the 1960s, deinstitutionalisation has been salient in mental health reforms across the West. In Norway, this culminated in the National Action Plan for Mental Health (1999-2008), where meeting places in community mental health care were deemed a prioritised strategy to counter social isolation among people in psychosocial hardships. However, during the same period in England, meeting places were beginning to be contested for contributing to social exclusion. This is an inquiry of meeting places in Norway guided by the following research question: How do service users discuss their encounters with the spaces and people of meeting places? Situated in community psychology and participatory research traditions, we engaged in a participatory discourse analysis of four focus group discussions with 22 service users from meeting places. We detail and discuss four central discursive constructions of meeting places against the backdrop of a civil society identified as fraught with sanism that stigmatises and excludes service users: a compensatory public welfare arrangement positioning service users as citizens with social rights; a peer community positioning service users as peers who share common identities and interests; spaces of compassion validating service users as fellow human beings who are precious in their own right; and greenhouses facilitating service users to expand their horizons of possibility. This inquiry implies that meeting places could mean everything to the people who attend them by facilitating opportunities considered less accessible elsewhere in their everyday lives in a sanist civil society. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c268f1b417e54e0cb71b3071faf60c062023-11-02T07:44:51ZengScandinavian University Press/UniversitetsforlagetNordic Journal of Social Research1892-27832018-03-01910.7577/njsr.21492149A participatory discourse analysis of service users’ accounts of meeting places in Norwegian community mental health careLill Susann Ynnesdal Haugen0Andreas Andreas Envy1Tor-Johan Ekeland2Marit Borg3Norman Anderssen4Department of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen; The research group Child welfare, equality and social inclusion, University of Bergen, Norway.Department of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen.Faculty of Social Science and History, Volda University College, N-6101 Volda, NorwayFaculty of Health Sciences, University College of Southeast Norway, N-3007 Drammen, NorwayDepartment of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen; Research Unit for General Practice, Uni Research Health, Bergen, Norway; The research group Child welfare, equality and social inclusion, University of Bergen.Since the 1960s, deinstitutionalisation has been salient in mental health reforms across the West. In Norway, this culminated in the National Action Plan for Mental Health (1999-2008), where meeting places in community mental health care were deemed a prioritised strategy to counter social isolation among people in psychosocial hardships. However, during the same period in England, meeting places were beginning to be contested for contributing to social exclusion. This is an inquiry of meeting places in Norway guided by the following research question: How do service users discuss their encounters with the spaces and people of meeting places? Situated in community psychology and participatory research traditions, we engaged in a participatory discourse analysis of four focus group discussions with 22 service users from meeting places. We detail and discuss four central discursive constructions of meeting places against the backdrop of a civil society identified as fraught with sanism that stigmatises and excludes service users: a compensatory public welfare arrangement positioning service users as citizens with social rights; a peer community positioning service users as peers who share common identities and interests; spaces of compassion validating service users as fellow human beings who are precious in their own right; and greenhouses facilitating service users to expand their horizons of possibility. This inquiry implies that meeting places could mean everything to the people who attend them by facilitating opportunities considered less accessible elsewhere in their everyday lives in a sanist civil society.https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/njsr/article/view/2149Participatory researchcommunity mental health caremental health day centresdiscourse analysisservice userssanismsocial democratic welfare state |
| spellingShingle | Lill Susann Ynnesdal Haugen Andreas Andreas Envy Tor-Johan Ekeland Marit Borg Norman Anderssen A participatory discourse analysis of service users’ accounts of meeting places in Norwegian community mental health care Nordic Journal of Social Research Participatory research community mental health care mental health day centres discourse analysis service users sanism social democratic welfare state |
| title | A participatory discourse analysis of service users’ accounts of meeting places in Norwegian community mental health care |
| title_full | A participatory discourse analysis of service users’ accounts of meeting places in Norwegian community mental health care |
| title_fullStr | A participatory discourse analysis of service users’ accounts of meeting places in Norwegian community mental health care |
| title_full_unstemmed | A participatory discourse analysis of service users’ accounts of meeting places in Norwegian community mental health care |
| title_short | A participatory discourse analysis of service users’ accounts of meeting places in Norwegian community mental health care |
| title_sort | participatory discourse analysis of service users accounts of meeting places in norwegian community mental health care |
| topic | Participatory research community mental health care mental health day centres discourse analysis service users sanism social democratic welfare state |
| url | https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/njsr/article/view/2149 |
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