- Title
- Emotional wellbeing as a matter of relationships and love : insights for social work from mental health peer mentor trainees, carers and practitioners
- Creator
- Ross, Dyann; Couche, Mary; Connolly, John; Bennett, Bindi
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/195833
- Identifier
- vital:18610
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/15332985.2023.2195521
- Identifier
- ISSN:1533-2985 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- The research gathered lived experience accounts of emotional wellbeing as a counter to the over-focus on illness and deficit language and approaches in mental health practice. The exploratory research study involved semi-interviews with mental health peer mentor trainees, carers and practitioners to explore their ideas about emotional wellbeing, what enabled it and what challenged their wellbeing. Emotional wellbeing was understood as a fluctuating continuum of capacities to engage in everyday activities, to self-care and to foster relationships with others. The absence of emotional wellbeing was linked to a reduced quality of relationships and ability to love. © 2023 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Relation
- Social Work in Mental Health Vol. 21, no. 6 (2023), p. 634-655
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright © 2023 The Author(s)
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 4409 Social work; 5203 Clinical and health psychology; Emotional wellbeing; Love; Mental health carers; Mental health peer mentor trainees; Mental health practitioners; Relationships
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Funder
- This work was supported by the University of the Sunshine Coast under a faculty internal research grant to collaborate with industry partners.
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