title: The book, the stories, the people: an ongoing dialogic narrative inquiry study combining a practice development project. Part 1: the research context.
abstract: This paper, part one of a two paper report, describes key aspects of the research context of an ongoing practice development project, conducted on two UK sites. The paper begins with a discussion of the project's origins within a community of people working in the recovery paradigm, including the contributory strand of the first author's recovery and survivor writing. The discussion then turns to three inter-related areas within which the research component sits and which provide it with philosophical, theoretical and conceptual coherence. Each area will be unpacked and its significance explained. This will provide a platform for discussing the focus, methodology and methods of the research, and related assumptions governing both data collection and analysis. The paper concludes with a research commitment to a mental health nursing practice allied to recovery as narrative healing. Links are made to the second paper which describes the context and specifics of a Writing for Recovery project for users, survivors and carers. This shares with, and builds on, the overall project's research context and its assumptions.
authors.affiliation: University of Brighton, Brighton, East Sussex, UK. a.grant@bton.ac.uk
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Grant
authors.forename: F C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Biley
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Leigh-Phippard
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Walker
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing*; D009014:Morals; D033262:Narration; D016730:Program Development; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D020127:Recovery of Function; D012107:Research Design; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D006113:United Kingdom