Honors College Thesis
 

Risk Taking, Social Stigma and Recovery from Severe Mental Illness

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  • Objective: To explore patient perspectives on the role of personal growth-related risk taking in the recovery process, and to identify social stigma’s role when consumers approach and evaluate new endeavors. Methods: 177 Kaiser Permanente Health Plan members participated in a mixedmethods study of recovery among individuals with serious mental illness (schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, affective psychosis). Participants completed 4 in-depth interviews over 24 months. Data were analyzed using a modified grounded theory approach. The author sub-coded and analyzed interview content, then extracted major themes to identify relevant text. Results: The most helpful discussions about risk-taking occurred in the context of healthy, collaborative, mutually trusting clinician-patient relationships. Advice was accepted when clinicians listened well, knew patients’ capabilities and interests, and pushed gently at a pace that was comfortable for patients. Concerns about social stigma were not observed commonly in this sample, however two participants independently discussed stigma despite not being directly asked about it. Conclusions: Enduring, strong, collaborative relationships provide a healthy framework for discussions between patients and clinicians about taking on new activities, roles or responsibilities. The importance of clinicians’ awareness of social stigma is underscored by decades of research findings that correlate with the author’s results.
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