Analyzing everyday experiences of long-term psychiatric service users in Serbia
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Psychiatric service users represent an underprivileged and mostly socially invisible group in the Serbian context. Despite some progress in the field of mental health care in the last decade, the treatment of people with mental health problems is still based almost exclusively on pharmacotherapy, within closed institutions, and with a very limited number and restricted availability of community support options. In this context, their perspectives and experiences are not represented in either public or academic discourse, so the main goal of this study was to provide insight into the everyday experiences, quality of life, difficulties and strengths of long-term psychiatric service users in Serbia. The qualitative study included 11 participants (9m and 2f), aged 26-65 (M = 48.5), all diagnosed with a psychotic disorder. All participants have been users of psychiatric services for decades (11-57 years) and have experienced multiple hospitalizations. Semi-structured interviews were conduct...ed and then transcribed and thematically analyzed (Braun & Clarke, 2006). Despite the many differences in life circumstances, current condition, internal and external resources among the participants, we recognized three key dimensions of experience that are relevant for all users and based on which we can understand why some of them, despite their diagnosis and long-term treatment, feel relatively well and are satisfied with their lives, and some do not: leading a meaningful and fulfilled life (with subthemes: occupation & creativity and the significance of structure), the availability and quality of social relations and continuous support, and the experience of control over one's own life as opposed to passivity and apathy.
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psychiatric service users / experiences / thematic analysisИзвор:
Conference of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology: The Internationalization of Qualitative Psychology, 2022Издавач:
- Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology (APA Division 5 section)
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Psihologija / PsychologyTY - CONF AU - Stanković, Biljana AU - Lukić, Petar AU - Stojadinović, Irena AU - Vukčević Marković, Maša PY - 2022 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/5156 AB - Psychiatric service users represent an underprivileged and mostly socially invisible group in the Serbian context. Despite some progress in the field of mental health care in the last decade, the treatment of people with mental health problems is still based almost exclusively on pharmacotherapy, within closed institutions, and with a very limited number and restricted availability of community support options. In this context, their perspectives and experiences are not represented in either public or academic discourse, so the main goal of this study was to provide insight into the everyday experiences, quality of life, difficulties and strengths of long-term psychiatric service users in Serbia. The qualitative study included 11 participants (9m and 2f), aged 26-65 (M = 48.5), all diagnosed with a psychotic disorder. All participants have been users of psychiatric services for decades (11-57 years) and have experienced multiple hospitalizations. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and then transcribed and thematically analyzed (Braun & Clarke, 2006). Despite the many differences in life circumstances, current condition, internal and external resources among the participants, we recognized three key dimensions of experience that are relevant for all users and based on which we can understand why some of them, despite their diagnosis and long-term treatment, feel relatively well and are satisfied with their lives, and some do not: leading a meaningful and fulfilled life (with subthemes: occupation & creativity and the significance of structure), the availability and quality of social relations and continuous support, and the experience of control over one's own life as opposed to passivity and apathy. PB - Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology (APA Division 5 section) C3 - Conference of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology: The Internationalization of Qualitative Psychology T1 - Analyzing everyday experiences of long-term psychiatric service users in Serbia UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_5156 ER -
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Stanković, B., Lukić, P., Stojadinović, I.,& Vukčević Marković, M.. (2022). Analyzing everyday experiences of long-term psychiatric service users in Serbia. in Conference of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology: The Internationalization of Qualitative Psychology Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology (APA Division 5 section).. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_5156
Stanković B, Lukić P, Stojadinović I, Vukčević Marković M. Analyzing everyday experiences of long-term psychiatric service users in Serbia. in Conference of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology: The Internationalization of Qualitative Psychology. 2022;. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_5156 .
Stanković, Biljana, Lukić, Petar, Stojadinović, Irena, Vukčević Marković, Maša, "Analyzing everyday experiences of long-term psychiatric service users in Serbia" in Conference of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology: The Internationalization of Qualitative Psychology (2022), https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_5156 .