Article published In: Narrative Inquiry
Vol. 27:1 (2017) ► pp.149–168
Narrative performances of user involvement among service users in mental health care
Published online: 3 August 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.27.1.08kla
https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.27.1.08kla
Abstract
This article deals with user involvement in mental health care and emerges from interviews with four service users at a community mental health center in northern Norway. The stories told by the participants were related to an impending closure of the center following a new health care reform. The aim of this article is to take a closer look at how user involvement was performed by the participants in the storytelling context. We explore the stories told using narrative contextualization analysis. Through our analysis, we find that narrative environments demands our attention to turn to storytelling as stories play out in the here and now of everyday life in mental health care.
Article outline
- Introduction
- User involvement in Norwegian community mental health care
- Narratives as performances in context
- Project, data and method
- Participants and recruitment
- Data collection
- Analyzing performances in the interview contexts
- Narrative performances as user involvement in context
- Stein: There are stupid things being done here
- Ellinor: I am in a safe environment
- Tom: It is money we are talking about
- Inger: We are a little worried about these cutbacks
- Discussion
- Closing remarks
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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