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Personal experiences of recovery facilitated by participation in an individual placement and support intervention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

I. Gammelgaard ,
E. Stenager ,
L.F. Eplov  and
K.S. Petersen
I. Gammelgaard
Affiliation:
Institute of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Psychiatric Research Unit, Odense C, Denmark
E. Stenager
Affiliation:
Institute of Regional Health Services, University of Southern Denmark, Research Unit of Mental Health, AAbenraa, Denmark
L.F. Eplov
Affiliation:
Research unit of Psychiatric Center Copenhagen, Research unit of Psychiatric Center Copenhagen, Hellerup, Denmark
K.S. Petersen
Affiliation:
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Aalborg, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg, Denmark

Abstract

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Introduction

Individual placement and support (IPS) is an evidence-based intervention where IPS consultants support people with severe mental illness in achieving competitive employment. IPS is a recovery-oriented intervention, but vast evidence regarding its ability to influence recovery-oriented outcomes challenges this position.

Aim

To investigate how an IPS-intervention influences the personal recovery process in people with severe mental illness.

Method

A qualitative phenomenological study including interview of 12 participants in an IPS-intervention. Analysis was made using a four-step phenomenological analysis method.

Results

IPS contributed to personal recovery in a number of ways: The IPS consultants’ ability to create an equal, acknowledging and safe relationship where participants’ needs were taking into consideration in the search and support for job or education was found valuable. In combination with employment, the role of the IPS consultant contributed to normalization and stabilisation of participants’ daily lives, changed their behaviours and beliefs about maintaining new achievements, personal goals and dreams.

Conclusion

Individual placement and support provides opportunities to gain personal goals and contributes to stabilisation and normalization of participants’ daily lives. This study supports the notion that the individual placement and support positively influences personal recovery in people with severe mental illness.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster Walk: Quality management; rehabilitation and psychoeducation and research methodology
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S379
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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