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Knowledge and expertise in care practices : the role of the peer worker in mental health teams
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Oborn, Eivor, Barrett, Michael, Gibson, Sarah and Gillard, Steven (2019) Knowledge and expertise in care practices : the role of the peer worker in mental health teams. Sociology of Health and Illness, 41 (7). pp. 1305-1322. doi:10.1111/1467-9566.12944 ISSN 0141-9889.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12944
Abstract
Our research examines how different forms of knowledge and expertise are increasingly important in caring for people experiencing mental illness. We build on theoretical developments regarding multiple ontologies of knowing about illness. We examine how experiential knowledge of mental health problems, learned by being subject to illness rather than through objective study, is enacted in mental healthcare teams. We focus on Peer Workers (PW), individuals who have lived experience of mental health problems, and who contribute knowledge and expertise to mental health care within multidisciplinary healthcare teams. Our longitudinal study was undertaken over 2 years by a multidisciplinary team who conducted 91 interviews with PW and other stakeholders to peer support within a comparative case study design. We show how workers with tacit, experiential knowledge of mental ill health engaged in care practice. First, we show how subjective knowing is underpinned by unique socialisation that enables the development of shared interactional spaces. Second, we point to how the situated nature of subjective knowing is uniquely embedded in time and space and allows for the alignment of embodied knowledge with trajectories of care. Third, we provide insight into how subjective forms of expertise might be incorporated into multidisciplinary care.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Mental health personnel, Mental illness -- Treatment | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Sociology of Health and Illness | ||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||
ISSN: | 0141-9889 | ||||||
Official Date: | 23 April 2019 | ||||||
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Volume: | 41 | ||||||
Number: | 7 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1305-1322 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/1467-9566.12944 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Oborn, E. , Barrett, M. , Gibson, S. and Gillard, S. (2019), Knowledge and expertise in care practices: the role of the peer worker in mental health teams. Sociol Health Illn. doi:10.1111/1467-9566.12944, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12944. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 March 2019 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 April 2020 | ||||||
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