Using Dyadic Interviews to Explore Recovery as a Collaborative Practice
Location
DeSantis Room 1052
Format Type
Plenary
Format Type
Paper
Start Date
15-1-2020 10:15 AM
End Date
15-1-2020 10:35 AM
Abstract
This presentation will be based in an on-going qualitative research project in a Norwegian municipality. The aim of the project is to develop research-based knowledge on what recovery orientation of mental health services in a municipality presupposes and involves connected to collaboration, roles and knowledge. Several studies have explored respectively service users and professionals’ experiences of recovery and recovery-oriented services. However, in this project, recovery in mental health is understood as a subjective process developed through collaboration between service users and mental health workers. Thus, to explore the aim of the study with a particular emphasis on collaboration, I chose to use dyadic interviews as a method of generating data. Service users are recruited as participants in the study. They are asked to choose their most important professional recovery helper. I then interview the service user and the mental health worker together through a dyadic interview. Through this shared interview, the intention is that they can negotiate and make meaning together on how they as a “pair” understand and work on recovery. After 4 months, the pairs will be reinterviewed, focusing and elaborating further on important themes from the first interviews.
In the presentation, I will focus on the nature and practical use of dyadic interviews by using concrete descriptions and examples from the current study. Furthermore, I will reflect on my experiences of using this method and its possibilities and challenges, including ethical considerations.
Keywords
dyadic interviews, explorative, collaboration, mental health, recovery
Using Dyadic Interviews to Explore Recovery as a Collaborative Practice
DeSantis Room 1052
This presentation will be based in an on-going qualitative research project in a Norwegian municipality. The aim of the project is to develop research-based knowledge on what recovery orientation of mental health services in a municipality presupposes and involves connected to collaboration, roles and knowledge. Several studies have explored respectively service users and professionals’ experiences of recovery and recovery-oriented services. However, in this project, recovery in mental health is understood as a subjective process developed through collaboration between service users and mental health workers. Thus, to explore the aim of the study with a particular emphasis on collaboration, I chose to use dyadic interviews as a method of generating data. Service users are recruited as participants in the study. They are asked to choose their most important professional recovery helper. I then interview the service user and the mental health worker together through a dyadic interview. Through this shared interview, the intention is that they can negotiate and make meaning together on how they as a “pair” understand and work on recovery. After 4 months, the pairs will be reinterviewed, focusing and elaborating further on important themes from the first interviews.
In the presentation, I will focus on the nature and practical use of dyadic interviews by using concrete descriptions and examples from the current study. Furthermore, I will reflect on my experiences of using this method and its possibilities and challenges, including ethical considerations.