The paradox of hope for working age adults recovering from stroke

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7787733
AutoresAndy Alaszewski (0000-0001-6312-7306, University of Kent), Iain Wilkinson (0000-0002-2390-0576, University of Kent)
Ano2015
Volume19
Fascículo2
Páginas172-187
Data de publicação2015-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHealth An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1363-4593 • E-ISSN: 1461-7196
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1363459314555242
PMID25411164
OpenAlexW2171153979
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas37

This article draws on data from a Stroke Association–funded longitudinal study in South East England (2003–2006) that explored the experiences and recovery of 43 stroke survivors under 60 years. Participants were invited to take part in four interviews over an 18-month period and to complete a diary for 1 week each month during this period. Here, we chart their shifting attitudes towards the process of their recovery. We bring a focus to how this transformed their views on the possible futures before them. We underline how hope was experienced as a deeply paradoxical and risk-laden notion. With energies concentrated upon the effort to live positively in the here and now, the very idea of hope for the future was met as an unwelcome distraction and in some cases even as a source of distress

Aesthetics · Art · Business · Cognitive psychology · Distraction · Distress · Futures contract · Psychotherapist · Acute Ischemic Stroke Management · Clinical Psychology · Engineering · History · Medicine · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Psychology · Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery