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Title: | If You Knew the End of the Story, Would you Still Want to Hear It?: The Importance of Narrative Time for Mental Health Care | Contributor(s): | Saunders, Vicki (author); Sherwood, Juanita (author); Usher, Kim (author) | Publication Date: | 2015 | Open Access: | Yes | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/18956 | Open Access Link: | http://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol20/iss10/4/ | Abstract: | The origins of this paper lie in our experiences of having heard too many stories with the same outcome or ending in the field of inquiry and practice described as "Aboriginal Mental Health." This paper was written in an attempt to make sense of these experiences. It does so by focussing on another type of outcome or story ending in mental health care/research contexts more widely known as [Recovery]. Not to be confused with the term recovery as it is used in addiction studies, the concept of [Recovery] currently underpinning mental health care policies and reform is at once a philosophy, a practice orientation, and a guiding value and principle. This paper emerged from a range of discussions about [Recovery] as a practice orientation and a particular type of story-ending told by those who receive and provide Aboriginal mental health care in North Queensland. Poetic inquiry was used as a way to respond to the questions that arose from these discussions. In the research projects and discussions that foreground and underpin this paper, the use of poetic reasoning and writing, evolved from using poetry as a reflective tool, to a being used as a method of data collection, data construction, analysis and interpretation (even though none of these words appropriately inscribe these aspects of research within Arts informed research practices). It is also posited as an aesthetic and ethical way of (re)presenting the results of inquiring. This paper (re)presents and unpacks a particular generated poem to demonstrate the approach (as it is and was) used. As an arts-informed approach to social inquiry and to writing, the purpose of this text is to open or introduce an awkward pause in an ongoing dialogue or conversation about Aboriginal people in mental health care and to amplify the Aboriginal voices informing the development of this text. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | The Qualitative Report, 20(10), p. 1594-1608 | Publisher: | Nova Southeastern University | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 2160-3715 1052-0147 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified 111714 Mental Health 111701 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 420399 Health services and systems not elsewhere classified 420313 Mental health services 450401 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and disability |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 920210 Nursing 920209 Mental Health Services 929999 Health not elsewhere classified |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 200307 Nursing 200305 Mental health services |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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