title: Re-establishing and preserving hope of recovery through user participation in patients with a severe mental disorder: the self-referral-to-inpatient-treatment project.
abstract: The treatment of patients with a severe mental disorder is generally not good enough. The aim of this article was to illustrate some alternative approaches for better understanding and treatment for the individual, besides seeing and interpreting the symptoms.
  
  
  
  The context of understanding is regulation of emotions whit a person-based approach. The self-referral-to-inpatient-treatment project is presented and discussed as a possible method of intervention to improve patient involvement.
  
  
  
  Theoretical approach.
  
  
  
  Involvement in genuine decisions, where the individual is in control and feels emotionally robust, is important. The experience of regaining authority through being self-empowered with sufficient environmental support is essential for re-establishing and preserving hope of recovery.
authors.affiliation: St Olavs University Hospital Nidaros Community Mental Health Center Trondheim Norway.
authors.forename: Silje S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Samuelsen
authors.affiliation: St Olavs University Hospital Nidaros Community Mental Health Center Trondheim Norway.
authors.forename: Inger Elise Opheim
authors.initials: IE
authors.lastname: Moljord
authors.affiliation: St Olavs University Hospital Nidaros Community Mental Health Center Trondheim Norway; Norwegian University of Science and Technology Faculty of Medicine Institute of Neuroscience Trondheim Norway.
authors.forename: Lasse
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Eriksen
keywords: hope; person‐based approaches; recovery; regulation of emotions; self‐referral bed; severe mental disorder