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Making Meaning Outside of the System: A Narrative Exploration of Recovery Within a Peer-run Setting

Goldsmith, Rachel E.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1272243278

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2010, Master of Arts, Miami University, Psychology.
This paper presents a qualitative exploration of the personal narratives of users of a peer-run residential alternative to mainstream, psychiatric treatment for severe psychological disturbances. Given that a person’s treatment setting can often be a powerful influence on how he or she construes his or her mental illness, I attempted to highlight whether the non-pathologizing and empowering practices of the peer-run setting and its open rhetoric about mental health and illness influenced its users personal narratives. Using the method of interpretive interactionism, I explored four narratives of people using a peer-run residential program for the potential impact the setting had on the stories. The narratives were re-presented to reflect the tension between a dominant, medicalized master narrative and a more integrated, trauma-informed alternative master narrative. A discussion of the implications of these and other findings is provided, including suggestions for both alternative and mainstream treatment settings.
Larry M. Leitner, PhD (Committee Chair)
Roger M. Knudson, PhD (Committee Member)
Ann Fuehrer, PhD (Committee Member)
90 p.
Psychology; Psychotherapy
mental illness; peer-run; recovery; narrative; treatment alternative; interpretive interactionism

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  • Goldsmith, R. E. (2010). Making Meaning Outside of the System: A Narrative Exploration of Recovery Within a Peer-run Setting [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1272243278

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Goldsmith, Rachel. Making Meaning Outside of the System: A Narrative Exploration of Recovery Within a Peer-run Setting. 2010. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1272243278.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Goldsmith, Rachel. "Making Meaning Outside of the System: A Narrative Exploration of Recovery Within a Peer-run Setting." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1272243278

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