Living Recovery : Youth Speak Out on "Owning" Mental Illness /
Living Recovery provides critical information for practitioners and educators in mental health services about the self-described needs of young people diagnosed with mental illness. It portrays the stages of living with mental illness through the recovery model ELAR-emergence, loss, adaptation, and...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waterloo, Ontario :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
2015.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- One. Framing the Context for Youth with Mental Illness
- Introduction
- Terms Used in This Book
- Who Is This Book For?
- Redefining Our Understanding of Mental "Illness"
- The Journey of Youth Through the Mental Health System
- Framing the Context for Youth Living with Mental Illness
- The Effects of a Mental Illness Diagnosis on Youth
- Youth, Metaphor, and Mental Illness
- Youth and the Social Construction of Mental Illness
- The Significance and Direction of This Work
- Summary
- Two. How Do Youth Experience Mental Illness?
- Prevalence of Mental Illness
- Growing Up: Forming Identity and Developmental Tasks for Young People
- Some Common Problems Experienced by Youth with Mental Illness
- Summary
- Three. Youth Participants: Who Are They?
- Research Objectives
- Why Use Qualitative Research?
- The Interviews
- Demographic Profile of Participants
- My Impressions of Participants
- Summary.