Abstracts
Abstract
Despite increased interest in relationships and emotions in social work, not enough is known about the role of emotions in recovery-oriented mental health care settings. Reflecting on my graduate research, I explore the inconsistent understandings and comfort levels with emotions in mental health social work practice. I make connections with findings which show that uneven attempts at relationship-building lead to missed opportunities for connection, understanding, and supporting recovery. I discuss the tensions faced by mental health practitioners implementing recovery-oriented interventions within a new public management and risk reduction paradigm of care and the ways that attending to emotions might help critique or dismantle the status quo. These reflections suggest pathways to resist these tensions through realizing the potential of emotions as a source of knowledge in constructing recovery-oriented mental health care interventions.
Keywords:
- Relationships,
- relational social work,
- emotions,
- mental health,
- risk management
Résumé
Le rôle des émotions dans l’intervention axée sur le rétablissement en santé mentale demeure peu connu. En réfléchissant à mes recherches dans ce domaine, j’explore les diverses compréhensions et les niveaux de confort avec les émotions dans la pratique du travail social en santé mentale. Les résultats de mes recherches sur la pratique de la santé mentale axée sur le rétablissement montrent que des tentatives inégales de création de liens et de relations entre intervenant et usager entraînent des occasions manquées de connexion, de compréhension et de soutien au processus de rétablissement. Je discute des défis et des tensions auxquels sont confrontés les intervenants en santé mentale dans le cadre d’un paradigme de soins de la nouvelle gestion publique et de réduction des risques et les façons dont la prise en compte des émotions pourrait aider à critiquer ou à démanteler le statu quo. Ces réflexions suggèrent des voies pour résister à ces tensions et mettent en valeur l’importance de réaliser pleinement le potentiel des émotions en tant que source de connaissances dans la construction d’interventions axées sur le rétablissement en santé mentale.
Mots-clés :
- Lien,
- travail social relationnel,
- émotions,
- santé mentale,
- gestion des risques
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