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Home Bittersweet Home: the Significance of Home for Occupational Transformations

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  • Maria Lindström

    (Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Division of Occupational Therapy, Umeå University, Sweden, maria.lindstrom@occupther.umu.se)

  • Margareta Lindberg

    (Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Division of Occupational Therapy, Umeå University, Sweden)

  • Stefan Sjöström

    (Department of Social Work, Umeå University, Sweden, National Institute for Public Health and Mental Health Research, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)

Abstract

Background: The study illuminated how persons with psychiatric disabilities experienced the processes of change in a residential context. Material: Qualitative interviews with residents living in supported housing were conducted and analyzed using constant comparative analysis. Discussion: Residential conditions appear to provide a complex structure that facilitates rehabilitative interactions, in which ‘progressive tensions’ arise between opposing values, such as authentic versus artificial, and independence versus dependence, both of which are important in the process of change. Conclusions: A client-centred approach could be taken further if clients are engaged in productive discussions about challenging these ‘progressive tensions’. Awareness of the meaning of home also emerged as central.

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  • Maria Lindström & Margareta Lindberg & Stefan Sjöström, 2011. "Home Bittersweet Home: the Significance of Home for Occupational Transformations," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 57(3), pages 284-299, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:57:y:2011:i:3:p:284-299
    DOI: 10.1177/0020764009354834
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