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Working With Youth As Stakeholders In Mental Health System Transformation: An Institutional Ethnography Of A Service Organization In Access Open Minds, Eugenia Canas
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As national system- and research-agendas invest heavily in the improvement of youth mental health services delivery, the discursive and policy impetus for the inclusion of youth as advisors has increased. However, we know little about the work of youth engagement (YE) in the everyday realities of a care-delivery organization. Does the engagement of youth advisors ultimately inform care?
This dissertation addresses the knowledge concerns of YE with a detailed account of the experiences of youth advisors, service providers, and an organization in the process of services reform. I used institutional ethnography to (1) reveal the day-to-day work of engaging young …
Being An Austrian Mother With Rheumatoid Arthritis: An Institutional Ethnography About The Social Organization Of Everyday Life, Birgit Prodinger
Being An Austrian Mother With Rheumatoid Arthritis: An Institutional Ethnography About The Social Organization Of Everyday Life, Birgit Prodinger
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This institutional ethnography research explored how women with rheumatoid arthritis, who are mothers, and of employable age, go about their daily lives given their social context. The social context for this research was Austria, which is characterized by social policies based on familialism and an emphasis on employment. This context may open up various resources and possibilities about what women can do and actually do in their daily lives, and thus, directs attention to the situated nature of human occupation.
In institutional ethnography particular attention is given to the social, which suggests that daily life becomes accomplished through coordinated activities …