Examination of strategy to promote recovery-oriented services for people with mental illness

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26705007
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Japan College of Social Work
• Principal Investigator: Niekawa Nobuyuki 日本社会事業大学, 公私立大学の部局等, 准教授 (30536181)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: リカバリー / 精神保健福祉 / 支援態度

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study examined the strategy to promote recovery-oriented services for people with mental illness. Interviews to experts of assertive community treatment revealed the importance of (1) individual nature of life and personal recovery in the people with mental illness, (2) dialectic approach in team staffs and collaborators of other facilities as well as in consumers. Participant observation in regional network of staffs who engaged in family psychoeducation and self-administered survey to staffs in psychiatric hospitals and welfare facilities for people with mental disabilities revealed that the importance of recovery was likely to disseminate to the staffs in terms of declarative knowledge but to have difficulty in services and experience conflict in system, colleagues, and collaborators of other facilities. The results indicates that it is necessary to develop environment to accept staffs’ positive and negative thoughts concerning services.

Free Research Field

精神保健福祉