Ethical research design in mental health recovery

Debbie Horsfall, Joy Paton

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Abstract

![CDATA[How do we design and create research spaces to enable stories of lived-experience to emerge from the margins? How can we do research which positively impacts people’s wellbeing? These questions underpinned the Stories of Recovery research project, conducted with 32 peo¬ple living with complex and severe mental illness who generated visual and written narra¬tives detailing their lived experiences. In designing for safe and ethical ‘sensitive enquiry’ we brought together the principles of mental health recovery with trauma-informed practice and collective impact strategies. The result was a methodology for embedding and embodying re¬covery principles in qualitative research design and practice that gives participants epistemic privilege and ‘takes care’ of participants and researchers. We found that the project’s inclusive and creative research design was key to eliciting the voices and perspectives of those living with complex mental illnesses. Success of the design strategy was also evident in the high retention rate of participants, despite their ongoing intersecting vulnerabilities. In this paper, we discuss the conception of the tripartite approach (research design) followed by how this was applied in the research (methods and procedures) and concluding with how the design did what we hoped for (findings and outcomes).]]
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationConference Proceedings: The Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association (TASA 2017), The University of Western Australia, November 27-30, 2017
PublisherTASA
Pages20-26
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9780648221005
Publication statusPublished - 2017
EventAustralian Sociological Association. Conference -
Duration: 27 Nov 2017 → …

Conference

ConferenceAustralian Sociological Association. Conference
Period27/11/17 → …

Keywords

  • research
  • qualitative research
  • mental health
  • ethics

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