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Strategies for encouraging and maintaining hope among people living with serious mental illness
- Authors:
- DARLINGTON Yvonne, BLAND Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Australian Social Work, 52(3), September 1999, pp.17-23.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article reports part of the results of a study of hope in mental illness. It focuses on the mental health worker's role in fostering and maintaining a sense of hope in people with serious mental illness. Approaches identified include: working within the client's frame of reference, focusing on the client's strengths, acknowledging small gains, making links to past gains, being genuine, helping clients to understand their illness, understanding the importance of achievement and holding on to hope when the client has none.