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Activities and Projects Narrative Research Project Background to project
Activities and Projects Narrative Research Project Background to project
Background to project
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The majority of research around mental health problems focuses on treatments and interventions. Our aim was to contribute to a new evidence base; one which is more concerned with the lived experience of recovery and things that help people stay well. In developing the project the aim was to create an evidence base that could influence all aspects of our work. We wanted to be able to use the research to inspire hope in others, to raise awareness of recovery and to contribute to a better understanding of the things that help and hinder on the recovery journey. Through the months of April and May 2005 the SRN travelled to 6 venues around Scotland to interview 64 people about their personal experiences of recovery. Following this we wrote up the interviews and created anonymous recovery stories, or narratives, based on the interviews. We shared the 64 stories from the project via the website and 12 of those stories in a booklet titled 'Journeys of Recovery'. We then studied the interview write-ups, identified the common themes and detailed the findings in ‘Recovering Mental Health in Scotland’ and ‘Routes to Recovery’ |
See our Submit Your Thoughts pages for details on how to submit a story to us or you can contact us.
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