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The contribution of case study design to supporting research on Clubhouse psychosocial rehabilitation
BACKGROUND: Psychosocial Clubhouses provide recovery-focused psychosocial rehabilitation to people with serious mental illness at over 300 sites in more than 30 countries worldwide. To deliver the services involved, Clubhouses employ a complex mix of theory, programs and relationships, with this com...
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BioMed Central
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4589980/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26427943 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1521-1 |
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author | Raeburn, Toby Schmied, Virginia Hungerford, Catherine Cleary, Michelle |
author_facet | Raeburn, Toby Schmied, Virginia Hungerford, Catherine Cleary, Michelle |
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description | BACKGROUND: Psychosocial Clubhouses provide recovery-focused psychosocial rehabilitation to people with serious mental illness at over 300 sites in more than 30 countries worldwide. To deliver the services involved, Clubhouses employ a complex mix of theory, programs and relationships, with this complexity presenting a number of challenges to those undertaking Clubhouse research. This paper provides an overview of the usefulness of case study designs for Clubhouse researchers; and suggests ways in which the evaluation of Clubhouse models can be facilitated. RESULTS: The paper begins by providing a brief explanation of the Clubhouse model of psychosocial rehabilitation, and the need for ongoing evaluation of the services delivered. This explanation is followed by an introduction to case study design, with consideration given to the way in which case studies have been used in past Clubhouse research. It is posited that case study design provides a methodological framework that supports the analysis of either quantitative, qualitative or a mixture of both types of data to investigate complex phenomena in their everyday contexts, and thereby support the development of theory. As such, case study approaches to research are well suited to the Clubhouse environment. The paper concludes with recommendations for future Clubhouse researchers who choose to employ a case study design. CONCLUSIONS: While the quality of case study research that explores Clubhouses has been variable in the past, if applied in a diligent manner, case study design has a valuable contribution to make in future Clubhouse research. |
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spelling | pubmed-45899802015-10-02 The contribution of case study design to supporting research on Clubhouse psychosocial rehabilitation Raeburn, Toby Schmied, Virginia Hungerford, Catherine Cleary, Michelle BMC Res Notes Research Article BACKGROUND: Psychosocial Clubhouses provide recovery-focused psychosocial rehabilitation to people with serious mental illness at over 300 sites in more than 30 countries worldwide. To deliver the services involved, Clubhouses employ a complex mix of theory, programs and relationships, with this complexity presenting a number of challenges to those undertaking Clubhouse research. This paper provides an overview of the usefulness of case study designs for Clubhouse researchers; and suggests ways in which the evaluation of Clubhouse models can be facilitated. RESULTS: The paper begins by providing a brief explanation of the Clubhouse model of psychosocial rehabilitation, and the need for ongoing evaluation of the services delivered. This explanation is followed by an introduction to case study design, with consideration given to the way in which case studies have been used in past Clubhouse research. It is posited that case study design provides a methodological framework that supports the analysis of either quantitative, qualitative or a mixture of both types of data to investigate complex phenomena in their everyday contexts, and thereby support the development of theory. As such, case study approaches to research are well suited to the Clubhouse environment. The paper concludes with recommendations for future Clubhouse researchers who choose to employ a case study design. CONCLUSIONS: While the quality of case study research that explores Clubhouses has been variable in the past, if applied in a diligent manner, case study design has a valuable contribution to make in future Clubhouse research. BioMed Central 2015-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4589980/ /pubmed/26427943 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1521-1 Text en © Raeburn et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Raeburn, Toby Schmied, Virginia Hungerford, Catherine Cleary, Michelle The contribution of case study design to supporting research on Clubhouse psychosocial rehabilitation |
title | The contribution of case study design to supporting research on Clubhouse psychosocial rehabilitation |
title_full | The contribution of case study design to supporting research on Clubhouse psychosocial rehabilitation |
title_fullStr | The contribution of case study design to supporting research on Clubhouse psychosocial rehabilitation |
title_full_unstemmed | The contribution of case study design to supporting research on Clubhouse psychosocial rehabilitation |
title_short | The contribution of case study design to supporting research on Clubhouse psychosocial rehabilitation |
title_sort | contribution of case study design to supporting research on clubhouse psychosocial rehabilitation |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4589980/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26427943 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1521-1 |
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