干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): An Oasis Within a Desert, But the Desert Remains: Clubhouse Members' Experiences of Social Belonging and Societal Oppression

Arid

DOI	10.1037/ort0000539
	An Oasis Within a Desert, But the Desert Remains: Clubhouse Members' Experiences of Social Belonging and Societal Oppression
	Desai, Miraj U.; Manning, Robert, III; Pavlo, Anthony J.; Blackman, Kimberly; Ocasio, Luz; Crespo, Merarilisse; Flanagan, Elizabeth
通讯作者	Desai, MU (corresponding author), New Haven CT, Dept Psychiat, Program Recovery & Community Hlth, 203-764-8141,319 Peck St,Bldg One, New Haven, CT 06513 USA.
来源期刊	AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ORTHOPSYCHIATRY
ISSN	0002-9432
EISSN	1939-0025
出版年	2021
卷号	91 期号:2 页码:294-301
英文摘要	Persons living with mental health challenges are at increased risk of stigma, social isolation, and social exclusion. Due to its emphasis on member participation and community, the clubhouse model of mental health may help address these issues. In this study, we examined experiences of social belonging and of various social determinants of mental health among members attending a psychosocial clubhouse. Twelve members of a large psychosocial clubhouse were interviewed regarding their experiences of community life and belonging. Phenomenological qualitative methods were utilized to examine the meaning and structure of these experiences. Members overwhelmingly experienced the clubhouse as a central site of belonging (an oasis), but members also recounted devastating portraits of life in the outside world (a desert). This world presented fundamental restrictions on their movement and speech and held deeply sedimented norms pertaining to who is considered valuable, productive, and even human, which they were reminded of through an endless tyranny of questions (what do you do, where do you live, etc.). Life in the clubhouse presented an alternative world for members to experience nourishment, dignity, reaffirmed personhood, and a sense of beauty. And yet, the desert outside remained. Implications of these findings for clubhouses, mental health practice, and sociopolitical and community engagement are discussed, including the need to address profound deprivations and power imbalances within the wider world, beyond the walls of humane spaces such as these. Public Policy Relevance Statement Members who attended a psychosocial clubhouse for mental health were able to experience nourishment, dignity, reaffirmed personhood, and a sense of beauty, but oppressive meanings and structures in the wider world remained. These findings suggest the need for clubhouse and broader mental health policy to focus greater attention on advocacy, community engagement, and sociopolitical issues, including societal restrictions on members' movement and speech, and the constant scrutiny and questioning they endure.
英文关键词	psychosocial rehabilitation clubhouses community belonging social determinants of mental health social isolation stigma and discrimination
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000651091700013
WOS关键词	MENTAL-ILLNESS ; STIGMA ; HEALTH ; LONELINESS
WOS类目	Psychiatry ; Social Work
WOS研究方向	Psychiatry ; Social Work
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/349438
作者单位	[Desai, Miraj U.; Manning, Robert, III; Pavlo, Anthony J.; Blackman, Kimberly; Ocasio, Luz; Crespo, Merarilisse; Flanagan, Elizabeth] New Haven CT, Dept Psychiat, Program Recovery & Community Hlth, 203-764-8141,319 Peck St,Bldg One, New Haven, CT 06513 USA; [Desai, Miraj U.] Yale Univ, South Asian Studies Council, New Haven, CT 06520 USA; [Desai, Miraj U.] Yale Sch Publ Hlth, Ctr Climate Change & Hlth, New Haven, CT USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Desai, Miraj U.,Manning, Robert, III,Pavlo, Anthony J.,et al. An Oasis Within a Desert, But the Desert Remains: Clubhouse Members' Experiences of Social Belonging and Societal Oppression[J],2021,91(2):294-301.
APA	Desai, Miraj U..,Manning, Robert, III.,Pavlo, Anthony J..,Blackman, Kimberly.,Ocasio, Luz.,...&Flanagan, Elizabeth.(2021).An Oasis Within a Desert, But the Desert Remains: Clubhouse Members' Experiences of Social Belonging and Societal Oppression.AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ORTHOPSYCHIATRY,91(2),294-301.
MLA	Desai, Miraj U.,et al."An Oasis Within a Desert, But the Desert Remains: Clubhouse Members' Experiences of Social Belonging and Societal Oppression".AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ORTHOPSYCHIATRY 91.2(2021):294-301.