Mental Health Recovery in Social Psychiatric Policies: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis

Jacob M. Nielsen (), Niels Buus and Lene L. Berring
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Jacob M. Nielsen: Psychiatric Research Unit, Centre for Relation & De-Escalation, Mental Health Services, 4200 Slagelse, Denmark
Niels Buus: Monash Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia
Lene L. Berring: Psychiatric Research Unit, Centre for Relation & De-Escalation, Mental Health Services, 4200 Slagelse, Denmark

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 12, 1-9

Abstract: The realisation of recovery as an overarching goal of mental health care services has proven difficult to achieve in practice. At present, concepts of recovery are contested and unclear, which affects their implementation in psychiatric practices. We examined social psychiatric policies about recovery with the aim to explore their underlying assumptions about recovery. Relevant texts from the policies’ knowledge bases were subjected to reflexive thematic analysis. We developed a central theme: “A clinical standardisation of the concept of recovery”. The theme involved meaning clusters that encompassed conflicting and commonly shared assumptions about recovery across the text corpus. We discussed the findings from discourse analytical and governmentality perspectives. In conclusion, the policies’ aim of providing clarity about recovery was circumvented by the very knowledge bases used to support their endeavours.

Keywords: recovery; mental health; management; policy; knowledge bases; social psychiatry; discourses; governmentality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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