This study examines the stories of offenders discharged from forensic psychiatry facilities and supported by professional workers in the community. Using in-depth interviews with conditionally discharged persons, community mental health nurses and social workers, the process of discharge and reintegration was investigated. Service users constructed new identities that worked to resist dominant professional discourses but nevertheless were resolutely mundane. In their day-to-day lives the accomplishment of ‘ordinary’ identities was a continuing and necessary task in securing successful community return. Themes: Identity; ethno-methods; medical sociology
Gay men and suicidality : an exploration of the significant biographical experiences fore-grounded during childhood, adolescence and early adulthood of some gay men who have engaged in suicidality. Themes: Bricolage; free association; narrative interviewing; gay men; suicidality
This qualitative study explored recovery in Anorexia Nervosa (AN) from the perspective of individuals with lived experience and examines the implications for practice. Findings show that recovery involves the successful integration of four dimensions; deciding to recover, sustaining recovering, doing the necessary tasks and building a life without AN. Themes: Eating disorders; anorexia; recovery
This thesis focusses on nursing within clinical practice and higher education. The work emerges from mental health nursing with one of the most marginalised groups in society, homeless people with mental health problems. The works develop from liminal spaces in clinical practice to the liminal space occupied by nursing in higher education. Themes: Liminality; professional identity; nursing in higher education; gender and nursing
Professional footballers are increasingly vulnerable to developing common mental health symptoms and disorders. Eighteen professional footballers were interviewed in order to explore how they are affected by mental health. Thematic analysis was applied along with ‘The Silences Framework’ to allow the voices of this marginalised group to be heard. Themes: Mental health; professional football
