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The Structuration of Community-Based Mental Health Care: A Duality Analysis of a Volunteer Group's Local Agency.
- Source :
- Qualitative Health Research; Jan2019, Vol. 29 Issue 2, p184-197, 14p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Using a lens of structuration theory, this study highlights the ways that specific structures within the current community-based model of mental health care might enable and constrain individuals and families living with mental illness. Through a case study of a volunteer mental illness advocacy group, the authors employed a duality analysis on a variety of data collected from the case (i.e., interviews, organizational documents, and community health care data). Findings indicate that while group members encountered structural barriers to their organizational mission, they also used communicative agency creatively and collectively to (re)create structures within the current community-based model of mental health care. Member agency is examined in relation to perceived structural influence. Theoretical and practical applications of the findings are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- MENTAL health services
MENTAL illness treatment
PSYCHOTHERAPY patients
MENTAL health
INTERVIEWING
RESEARCH methodology
NONPROFIT organizations
SUPPORT groups
VOLUNTEER service
VOLUNTEERS
JUDGMENT sampling
LABELING theory
SOCIAL support
ORGANIZATIONAL goals
MENTAL health services administration
EDUCATION
PSYCHOLOGY
ECONOMICS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10497323
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Qualitative Health Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 133612350
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732318786945