L Davidson
Biographic Data
| ID | 14551 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Davidson |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Davidson |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIDSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1183-8047 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 86 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 235 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 86 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Pushing the Boat Out”
How Do People Experience Early Intervention Services for Psychosis? A Meta-Synthesis
We conducted a study to explore how people diagnosed with first-episode psychosis experienced their contact with early intervention services for psychosis and the way these experiences relate to their recovery processes. Our aim was to integrate and describe the service users' experiences in a rigorous and comprehensive way. A broad literature search was performed in June and July 2016. After screening, 17 qualitative studies were included. We an…
Provider perspectives on employment for people with serious mental illness
BACKGROUND: Persons with serious mental illnesses (SMI) can lead productive lives, and the majority want to work. Mental health providers can play an important role in helping their clients gain and maintain employment. AIMS: The Provider Survey was developed to shed additional light on providers' views toward employment and recovery, and the utilization of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) supported employment (SE) services for people with …
Common Factors in Community Mental Health Intervention
Community participation within the context of recovery
Community participation is a key component of recovery for people with schizophrenia however, little is known about this process for persons of South Asian origin. This study explores the community participation and recovery amongst South Asians with schizophrenia living in Toronto, Canada. Seven people of South Asian origin with a diagnosis of psychosis or schizophrenia participated in a longitudinal qualitative study, with interviews taking pla…
Fragmented inclusion
Community participation is often cited as a crucial component of wellness for people with mental health diagnoses. Few studies explore community participation from the perspective of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) people with diagnoses of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. This article describes an in-depth qualitative study with 16 LGBTQ people; 18 social service workers; and 2 key informants in Toronto, Ontario that examined …
The big picture unfolds
BACKGROUND: User participation is advocated on the basis that consumers know their own needs better than anyone else. Photovoice is a participatory research method that empowers the grass-root population to give voice on concerned issues for eliciting social change. AIM: This study explores the experience and impact of user participation in mental health services (MHS) in Hong Kong through photovoice. It also examines the effects of this method i…
The negative effects of oppression in the recovery process
The aim of this project was to study if and how experiences of oppression on the grounds of mental distress and gender affect the reclaiming and (re)construction of identities in the recovery process. In this study 33 narratives were analysed using framework analysis. The analysis showed that the experience of oppression affected the participants negatively along emotional and psychological pathways and affected their life activities, that is, th…
Exploring the Contours of Religion and Spirituality in Creating Community
For persons living with psychosis, religious and spiritual spaces are a readily available resource that can support recovery and community inclusion. However, these resources are often underutilized in treatment planning. This in‐depth qualitative analysis explored the construction of community through faith spaces, religion, and spirituality for persons with psychosis. An ethnically and racially diverse group of 31 people with psychosis were int…
À l’origine même de la psychiatrie comme nouvelle spécialité médicale
Le partenariat patient en santé mentale et psychiatrie est considéré de nos jours comme une innovation et comme une composante essentielle à des soins de santé mentale personnalisés. Un retour sur le paradigme humaniste inscrit au coeur des travaux précurseurs de Philippe Pinel et Jean-Baptiste Pussin permet cependant de constater que le « traitement moral » qu’ils préconisaient, il y a déjà 200 ans, reposait en bonne partie sur cette mise à prof…
Logistic regression analysis of psychosocial correlates associated with recovery from schizophrenia in a Chinese community
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: More mental health services are adopting the recovery paradigm. This study adds to prior research by (a) using measures of stages of recovery and elements of recovery that were designed and validated in a non-Western, Chinese culture and (b) testing which demographic factors predict advanced recovery and whether placing importance on certain elements predicts advanced recovery. METHOD: We examined recovery and factors associa…
Mental Health Recovery in the Patient-Centered Medical Home
Objectives. We examined the impact of transitioning clients from a mental health clinic to a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) on mental health recovery. Methods. We drew data from a large US County Behavioral Health Services administrative data set. We used propensity score analysis and multilevel modeling to assess the impact of the PCMH on mental health recovery by comparing PCMH participants (n = 215) to clients receiving service as usual …
Money and Mental Illness
The central role of self-esteem for persons with psychosis
The overall purpose of this article is to examine the role that self-esteem plays in the lives of individuals experiencing psychotic disorders. Particularly, and following the work of Harry Stack Sullivan, the expression of love as a necessary foundation for self-esteem is explored to assess its significance during and after onset of illness. Initial positive interpersonal relationships and displays of love by the caregiver during infancy may rem…
Introduction to special issue on recovery
As this special issue indicates, the concept of mental health recovery has made its way to the eastern hemisphere. In some parts of this hemisphere, such as in Australia and New Zealand, the concep
When soft voices die
Understandings of auditory verbal hallucinations (also referred to as “hearing voices”), and help for people distressed by them, are dominated by a biomedical framework. Yet, many people who have sought help for the distress and/or impairment caused by hearing voices express dissatisfaction with treatment solely within this framework, highlighting the need for a more rounded, biopsychosocial-spiritual approach. This paper examines the neglected r…
On receipt of the Carl Rogers Award from the Society for Humanistic Psychology
How I found out I had a bipolar disorder
Research indicates that it may take up to 10 years between onset of symptoms of bipolar disorder and receiving correct diagnosis and treatment. What is this period like? How do individuals experience the process of discovering that they have a bipolar disorder? In this study we utilized a hermeneutical-phenomenological approach developed within a reflexive-collaborative framework to explore these questions. In-depth interviews with 13 participant…
Metasynthesis and Bricolage
During the past decades, new approaches to synthesizing qualitative data have been developed. However, this methodology continues to face significant philosophical and practical challenges. By reviewing the literature on this topic, our overall aim in this article is to explore the systematic and creative research processes involved in the act of metasynthesizing. By investigating synthesizing processes borrowed from two studies, we discuss matte…
Peer support among persons with severe mental illnesses
“As much as possible, all servants are chosen from the category of mental patients. They are at any rate better suited to this demanding work because they are usually more gentle, honest, and humane” — Jean Baptiste Pussin, in a 1793 letter to Philippe Pinel 1. Peer support among persons with severe mental illnesses has been largely considered a recent phenomenon, with the first published account of this presumably “new” form of service delivery …
Perceived Stigma Exposure in Schizophrenia
Exposure to stigmatization is a serious complication of mental illness in general, and of schizophrenia in particular. Adopting an action-theory approach, according to which individuals shape their own social environment (Shahar, 2006), we examined the role of four self-concept aspects in patients' perception of exposure to stigmatization: self-esteem level and stability, perception of the self as ill, and self-concept clarity. Out-patients with …
Toward Caring for Oneself in a Life of Intense Ups and Downs
In this article, we discuss processes of recovery in bipolar disorder. We utilized a hermeneutical-phenomenological approach developed within a reflexive-collaborative framework to examine what individuals do to promote improvement and positive change in their own lives. The study was designed and carried out in collaboration with an expert-by-experience group of 12 coresearchers with firsthand experiences of mental distress and recovery. In-dept…
Stigma-busting, compeer, and the psychology student
Stigma has been identified both by people with mental illnesses and by empirical research to be a major barrier to service use and recovery. In addition, research has suggested that the most effective strategy for reducing stigma is personal contact with a person who has a mental illness and who is contributing to the life of the community. This article reports the qualitative findings from a study of the use of the Compeer model to address stigm…
Not Just an Individual Journey
Background: Recent literature on recovery describes the process as deeply personal and unique to each individual. While there are aspects of recovery that are unique to each individual, this article argues that focusing solely on these overlooks the fact that recovery unfolds within a social and interpersonal context. Materials: Drawing from qualitative data, this article describes aspects of recovery that involve the contributions of others, the…
Experiences of Self-Esteem in Outpatients Diagnosed With Psychosis
The aim of the article is explore the meaning of self-esteem for individuals with psychotic disorders. To understand how individuals with psychosis experience self-esteem, eight participants (four females and four males) were interviewed using a semistructured open-ended format with scripted questions. Individuals with psychotic disorders maintained a sense of self by pursuing social and interpersonal activities that sustained and enhanced their …
Sense of self in recovery from severe mental illness
This report based on research interviews conducted with persons struggling to recover from prolonged psychiatric disorders suggests that the rediscovery and reconstruction of an enduring sense of the self as an active and responsible agent provides an important aspect of improvement. This process of developing a functional sense of self in the midst of persisting psychotic symptoms and dysfunction is described, and its implications for understand…
You have to adapt because you have no other choice”
Presented in this paper are the results of a qualitative analysis of the narratives of 208 homeless youth interviewed on streets and in agencies in New York City and Toronto. The interviews focused on the participants' stories about their struggles to survive and negotiate meaningful and healthy lives in coming to the streets, living on the streets, and finding ways off the streets. Analysis of the narratives revealed shifts in the youths' senses…
Reflecting on Participatory, Action‐Oriented Research Methods in Community Psychology
Highlights Participatory action research (PAR) remains an underutilized methodology in community mental health. PAR embodies the type of approach needed to improve the system‐level impacts of community psychology. The contexts of PAR are changing and how PAR is understood and taught need to change with them
Self and narrative in schizophrenia
The prevailing, clinical view of schizophrenia, as reflected in the psychiatric literature, suggests both that people with schizophrenia have lost their sense of self and that they have a diminished capacity to create coherent narratives about their own lives. Drawing on our empirical research in the growing area of recovery, we describe not only the disruptions and discontinuities introduced by the illness and its social and personal consequence…
Homelessness, Mental Illness and Citizenship
Assertive mental health outreach to homeless persons, which operates under the premise that mental illness must be understood and treated within the individual’s social and economic environment, points towards the goals of community membership and ‘citizenship’—a connection to the rights, responsibilities, roles, and resources that society offers through public and social institutions and informal ‘associational life’—for homeless persons. We arg…
Stories of working with homeless youth
Supported socialization for people with psychiatric disabilities
Two hundred and sixty people with psychiatric disabilities who were socially isolated and withdrawn were randomly assigned to one of three conditions to facilitate their engagement in social and recreational activities: They were (a) not matched with a volunteer partner ( N = 70), (b) matched with a volunteer partner who had a personal history of psychiatric disability ( N = 95), or (c) matched with a volunteer partner with no history of psychiat…
Oil and Water or Oil and Vinegar? Evidence-Based Medicine Meets Recovery
Youth Homelessness
Metasynthesis and Bricolage
During the past decades, new approaches to synthesizing qualitative data have been developed. However, this methodology continues to face significant philosophical and practical challenges. By reviewing the literature on this topic, our overall aim in this article is to explore the systematic and creative research processes involved in the act of metasynthesizing. By investigating synthesizing processes borrowed from two studies, we discuss matte…
Toward Caring for Oneself in a Life of Intense Ups and Downs
In this article, we discuss processes of recovery in bipolar disorder. We utilized a hermeneutical-phenomenological approach developed within a reflexive-collaborative framework to examine what individuals do to promote improvement and positive change in their own lives. The study was designed and carried out in collaboration with an expert-by-experience group of 12 coresearchers with firsthand experiences of mental distress and recovery. In-dept…
Chronicity Reconsidered
Can There Be a Recovery-Oriented Diagnostic Practice
Despite the prevalence of the DSM in mental health practice, research, and the public imagination, it remains the target of criticism. With the publication of another volume in the DSM series, we have seen increased dialogue regarding the necessity of viable alternatives that do not succumb to the pitfalls of a descriptive diagnostic system. In this article, we explore a framework for a recovery-oriented and person-centered diagnostic practice al…
Money and Mental Illness
How Do People Experience Early Intervention Services for Psychosis? A Meta-Synthesis
We conducted a study to explore how people diagnosed with first-episode psychosis experienced their contact with early intervention services for psychosis and the way these experiences relate to their recovery processes. Our aim was to integrate and describe the service users' experiences in a rigorous and comprehensive way. A broad literature search was performed in June and July 2016. After screening, 17 qualitative studies were included. We an…
How I found out I had a bipolar disorder
Research indicates that it may take up to 10 years between onset of symptoms of bipolar disorder and receiving correct diagnosis and treatment. What is this period like? How do individuals experience the process of discovering that they have a bipolar disorder? In this study we utilized a hermeneutical-phenomenological approach developed within a reflexive-collaborative framework to explore these questions. In-depth interviews with 13 participant…
Help seeking and satisfaction among Latinas
This study explored help seeking among primary Spanish speaking women of Hispanic origin who had behavioral health needs. We evaluated relational and cultural aspects of care and service utilization by using qualitative and quantitative measures of perceived behavioral health needs, therapeutic relationships, ethnic identity and degree of acculturation, and satisfaction with services among 103 women. We explored the nature of the therapeutic rela…
Service providers' views of psychiatric mutual support groups
Despite evidence that mutual support groups can be beneficial for those with serious mental illnesses, professionals have been reluctant to utilize this resource. We surveyed over 400 providers across several disciplines and settings within the state of Connecticut's public mental health system to assess their attitudes and practices regarding the use of mutual support groups for their patients. We found that being a rehabilitation worker and pos…
That Was a State of Depression by Itself Dealing with Society”
Despite increased societal focus on structural racism, and its negative impact on health, empirical research within mental health remains limited relative to the magnitude of the problem. The current study—situated within a community‐engaged project with members of a predominantly Black and African American church in the northeastern US—collaboratively examined depressive experience, recovery, and the role of racism and racialized structures. Thi…
How Are We Doing? A Statewide Survey of Community Adjustment Among People with Serious Mental Illness Receiving Intensive Outpatient Services
What are dually diagnosed patients' problems represented to be in mental health? A WPR analysis of the multistability purpose of digital health records
No previous studies have investigated how political measures, opinions and views of people with dual diagnoses, organisational requirements and professional values are purposefully communicated, mediated and/or integrated in digital records in mental health care. It remains unclear how health records function as both clinical vehicles for documentation, audit and quality assurance in patient care as well as political vehicles of power to articula…
Tele-Mental Health Utilization Among People with Mental Illness to Access Care During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Implicit organizational bias
There are increased efforts to improve patient-provider relations and engagement within North American mental health systems. However, it is unclear how these innovations impact care for ethnic minorities, a group that continues to face social and health disparities. This study examined one such engagement innovation-person-centered care planning-to gain a better understanding of this overall process. We specifically explored how mental health pr…
Pushing the Boat Out”
Community participation within the context of recovery
Community participation is a key component of recovery for people with schizophrenia however, little is known about this process for persons of South Asian origin. This study explores the community participation and recovery amongst South Asians with schizophrenia living in Toronto, Canada. Seven people of South Asian origin with a diagnosis of psychosis or schizophrenia participated in a longitudinal qualitative study, with interviews taking pla…
How American Radicals See the Resistance Dilemma
A Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior
Lebanon and the Jewish Conscience
Lebanon and the Jewish Conscience
An historical aim of the Zionist movement is to secure the Jewish people not only a national homeland, but also a state. Within the national homeland, Jews are to be all that they religiously, intellectually and culturally can be, and by possessing a state they are also finally to become like all other nationalities. This latter goal is wholly secular and different from the biblical directive calling upon the Jewish people to be a light unto the …
What is the appropriate source for psychological explanation
Philosophical foundations of humanistic psychology
Sense of self in recovery from severe mental illness
This report based on research interviews conducted with persons struggling to recover from prolonged psychiatric disorders suggests that the rediscovery and reconstruction of an enduring sense of the self as an active and responsible agent provides an important aspect of improvement. This process of developing a functional sense of self in the midst of persisting psychotic symptoms and dysfunction is described, and its implications for understand…
Story telling and schizophrenia
This report demonstrates how narrative findings from phenomenological research can provide insights into the structures of lived experience that generalize beyond the individual cases. Building upon a narrative perspective, the author suggests that the phenomenological study of schizophrenic delusions can disclose the subjective lives of people struggling with this illness. Viewing delusions as stories that people with schizophrenia tell about th…
SSHM Prize Essay
The paper takes its cue from the work on specialization and American ophthalmology by George Rosen (1944). Where Rosen's account was inspired by sociology, this paper gives a non-teleological account of medical specialization through a cultural history of ophthalmology. The cultural nature of the ophthalmic epidemics motivated practitioners to study the eye in earnest. These practitioners had to surmount obstacles intrinsic to the medical culture…
Phenomenological and Participatory Research on Schizophrenia
This article describes the application of phenomenological and participatory research methods in understanding the problem of recurrent inpatient admissions for individuals diagnosed with serious mental illness. Conventional approaches to understanding and addressing inpatient recidivism in serious mental illness have neglected to invite the perspective or input of the person with the disorder, further exacerbating the passive and helpless role o…
Peer support among individuals with severe mental illness
This article reviews the history and potential effectiveness of peer support among persons with severe mental illness. Following a historical overview, we describe the three primary forms of peer support that have been developed to date by and for this population, and examine the existing empirical evidence of the feasibility, effectiveness, and utilization of each of these approaches in contributing to the recovery of individuals with psychiatri…
Philosophical foundations of humanistic psychology
From the perspective of the history of Western thought, humanism is a philosophy based on the belief that the human is irreducible to other forms of life, whether material or Divine. To the extent that humanistic psychology has its roots in the humanist tradition, it shares this conviction that the human cannot be understood except in its own terms. This report will review the philosophical precedents for this perspective on the nature of human f…
How Are We Doing? A Statewide Survey of Community Adjustment Among People with Serious Mental Illness Receiving Intensive Outpatient Services
Homelessness, Mental Illness and Citizenship
Assertive mental health outreach to homeless persons, which operates under the premise that mental illness must be understood and treated within the individual’s social and economic environment, points towards the goals of community membership and ‘citizenship’—a connection to the rights, responsibilities, roles, and resources that society offers through public and social institutions and informal ‘associational life’—for homeless persons. We arg…
Clinical responsibility and client autonomy
Mental health outreach to homeless persons requires practice standards for cases in which clinical assessment and client autonomy conflict. After reviewing the principles of mental health outreach and presenting case examples, conditions and boundaries within which outreach workers negotiate the clinical responsibility/client autonomy dilemma are discussed. Guidelines to support sound clinical practice while respecting client autonomy are also di…
Chronicity Reconsidered
Understanding and Evaluating Qualitative Research
Qualitative research aims to address questions concerned with developing an understanding of the meaning and experience dimensions of humans’ lives and social worlds. Central to good qualitative research is whether the research participants’ subjective meanings, actions and social contexts, as understood by them, are illuminated. This paper aims to provide beginning researchers, and those unfamiliar with qualitative research, with an orientation …
Service providers' views of psychiatric mutual support groups
Despite evidence that mutual support groups can be beneficial for those with serious mental illnesses, professionals have been reluctant to utilize this resource. We surveyed over 400 providers across several disciplines and settings within the state of Connecticut's public mental health system to assess their attitudes and practices regarding the use of mutual support groups for their patients. We found that being a rehabilitation worker and pos…
The Integration of Treatment and Rehabilitation in Psychiatric Practice and Services
Supported socialization for people with psychiatric disabilities
Two hundred and sixty people with psychiatric disabilities who were socially isolated and withdrawn were randomly assigned to one of three conditions to facilitate their engagement in social and recreational activities: They were (a) not matched with a volunteer partner ( N = 70), (b) matched with a volunteer partner who had a personal history of psychiatric disability ( N = 95), or (c) matched with a volunteer partner with no history of psychiat…
The person in recovery from acute and severe psychosis
The role of 3 personality dimensions (i.e., dependency, self-criticism, and efficacy) in recovery from an acute and severe psychosis was examined. Conceptualizing psychosis as involving difficulties in establishing psychological boundaries, the authors hypothesized that dependency has a greater disruptive effect on recovery than self-criticism. Results of a reanalysis of longitudinal data (N = 76) of people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders d…
Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Therapeutic Collaboration Scale (TCS)
The development of appropriately normed Spanish-language assessments is a necessity as a result of (1) a growing Latino population in need of behavioral health services and (2) a limited number of linguistically and culturally sensitive instruments that are currently available. As part of a broader assessment on the needs and satisfaction with services received, 103 Latina women completed the Therapeutic Collaboration Scale (TCS). This measure at…
Peer Support Among Adults With Serious Mental Illness
Peer support is based on the belief that people who have faced, endured, and overcome adversity can offer useful support, encouragement, hope, and perhaps mentorship to others facing similar situations. While this belief is well accepted for many conditions, such as addiction, trauma, or cancer, stigma and stereotypes about mental illness have impeded attempts on the part of people in recovery to offer such supports within the mental health syste…
Recovery in Serious Mental Illness
The notion of recovery has become a dominant force in mental health policy, evident in reports of the Surgeon General and President's New Freedom Commission. In both reports, recovery is stipulated as the overarching goalof care and foundation for reforms at state and local levels. Little consensus exists regarding the nature of recovery in mental illness, however, or about the most effective ways to promote it. The authors offer a conceptual fra…
Self and narrative in schizophrenia
The prevailing, clinical view of schizophrenia, as reflected in the psychiatric literature, suggests both that people with schizophrenia have lost their sense of self and that they have a diminished capacity to create coherent narratives about their own lives. Drawing on our empirical research in the growing area of recovery, we describe not only the disruptions and discontinuities introduced by the illness and its social and personal consequence…
Psychology (76 works) · Psychiatry (55 works) · Mental health (43 works) · Medicine (40 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (40 works) · Sociology (35 works) · Political science (34 works) · Social Psychology (30 works) · Psychotherapist (25 works) · Mental illness (22 works)