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An Inquiry: The Concept And Application Of Empowerment, Pamela Kay Wheelock
An Inquiry: The Concept And Application Of Empowerment, Pamela Kay Wheelock
Masters Theses
While empowerment is a dominant concern in mental health care, services often reflect the inadequate use of an empowerment-based frame of reference. This study seeks to enlarge the understanding of empowerment so that more effective services can be established.
Using naturalistic inquiry methodology, this study explores the lived experience of empowerment through direct dialogue with both mental health consumer advocates and mental health occupational therapists. Data were collected and evaluated using a hermeneutic dialectic process. A series of three interviews were done with six respondents.
Analysis of the interviews revealed striking contrasts between the therapists' and advocates' perspectives in relation …