Sweeney, Kiara (2021) Mental Health Practitioners’ Conceptualisation of Youth Recovery. Honours thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
Increased prevalence of mental health concerns amongst youth has placed significant burden on families and mental health services. To engage vulnerable youths, mental health services are increasingly focused on ‘personal recovery,’ which relates to improvements in daily functioning, wellbeing and self-management - with or without the presence of mental health symptoms. While recovery has been conceptualised and researched amongst adults, there is limited literature on the concept of recovery amongst youth with mental health concerns. This study aimed to explore how health professionals in youth mental health services conceptualise recovery amongst youth aged 12 to 25 years. The research also investigated health practitioners’ views of the facilitators and barriers to youth recovery. A purposive sample of 12 multidisciplinary health professionals from a youth mental health service were selected. Participants took part in focus groups and the data was analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Semantic and latent coding strategies were applied to classify patterns of meaning in the data. Themes were identified utilising a hybrid deductive and inductive analytic approach. Overall, health practitioners conceptualised youth recovery as a process, rather than an outcome. Central aspects of youth recovery relating to connectedness, hope and optimism, identity, meaning and empowerment were identified. Finally, the health practitioners highlighted key facilitators and barriers for youth recovery. The findings have practical implications for recovery-oriented practice in youth mental health services and inform efforts to support young people with complex mental health concerns and their families.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Honours) |
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences - School of Psychology and Counselling (1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2021) |
| Supervisors: | Govind Krishnamoorthy |
| Qualification: | Bachelor of Science (Honours) |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Aug 2025 23:54 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Aug 2025 23:54 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | mental health ; youth, recovery ; professionals ; services |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5299 Other psychology > 529999 Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/52799 |
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