Isn’t this just another example of researchers and professionals colonizing consumers’ experiences?
Many people who have lived with illness have had multiple injustices and indignities. The aim of the stage model of psychological recovery, however, is to provide a framework for people to have discussions about their personal processes. It provides a comparison point for dialogue. It also provides the opportunity for some structuring of recovery-oriented service provision and for measurement of recovery processes. If consumers were being actively exploited to use this approach or partake in research unwillingly it could be construed as colonization. Rather than colonization, a better analogy may be mutual map making. If over time the model does not fit with people’s experience it will be modified in line with scientific method.
The model is silent on whether the researcher has a mental illness or not.
Many people who have lived with illness have had multiple injustices and indignities. The aim of the stage model of psychological recovery, however, is to provide a framework for people to have discussions about their personal processes. It provides a comparison point for dialogue. It also provides the opportunity for some structuring of recovery-oriented service provision and for measurement of recovery processes. If consumers were being actively exploited to use this approach or partake in research unwillingly it could be construed as colonization. Rather than colonization, a better analogy may be mutual map making. If over time the model does not fit with people’s experience it will be modified in line with scientific method.
The model is silent on whether the researcher has a mental illness or not.
