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Abstract
Aims:
By analysing carers’ accounts of their daily lives and affective challenges during a relative’s FEP against the background of wider research into EIS, this paper explores relationships between carers’ experiences and EIS.
Method:
Semi-structured longitudinal interviews with 80 carers of young people with FEP treated through English EIS.
Results:
Our data suggest that EIS successfully aid carers to support their relatives, particularly through the provision of knowledge about psychosis and medications. However, paradoxical ramifications of these user-focused engagements also emerge; they risk leaving carers’ emotions unacknowledged and compounding an existing lack of help-seeking.
Conclusions:
By focusing on EIS’s engagements with carers, this paper draws attention to an urgent broader question: as a continuing emphasis on care outside the clinic space places family members at the heart of the care of those with severe mental illness, we ask: who can, and should, support carers, and in what ways?
By analysing carers’ accounts of their daily lives and affective challenges during a relative’s FEP against the background of wider research into EIS, this paper explores relationships between carers’ experiences and EIS.
Method:
Semi-structured longitudinal interviews with 80 carers of young people with FEP treated through English EIS.
Results:
Our data suggest that EIS successfully aid carers to support their relatives, particularly through the provision of knowledge about psychosis and medications. However, paradoxical ramifications of these user-focused engagements also emerge; they risk leaving carers’ emotions unacknowledged and compounding an existing lack of help-seeking.
Conclusions:
By focusing on EIS’s engagements with carers, this paper draws attention to an urgent broader question: as a continuing emphasis on care outside the clinic space places family members at the heart of the care of those with severe mental illness, we ask: who can, and should, support carers, and in what ways?
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 135-142 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | The British Journal of Psychiatry |
| Volume | 207 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 21 May 2015 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Aug 2015 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
Profiles
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Joanne Hodgekins
- Norwich Medical School - Clinical Associate Professor in Psychology
- Mental Health and Social Care - Member
- Mental Health - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Research Centre Member, Academic, Teaching and Research
Projects
- 1 Finished
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SUstaining Positive Engagement and Recovery (SuperEDEN) - the next step after Early Intervention for Psychosis
Birchwood, P. (Principal Investigator), Fowler, D. (Principal Investigator), Amos, T. (Co-Investigator), Benington, K. (Co-Investigator), Freemantle, N. (Co-Investigator), Hodgekins, J. (Co-Investigator), Jones, P. (Co-Investigator), Larsen, J. (Co-Investigator), Lester, H. (Co-Investigator), Marshall, P. (Co-Investigator), McCrone, P. (Co-Investigator), Phipps, K. (Co-Investigator), Sharma, V. (Co-Investigator), Singh, S. (Co-Investigator) & Smith, J. (Co-Investigator)
National Institute for Health and Care Research
1/10/10 → 30/09/15
Project: Research
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