Knut Tore Sælør Associate professor, Centre for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, University College of Southeast Norway
MAIN FIELD OF WORK:
I am a nurse who´s had my clinical experiences in various mental health wards, always with a special interest in co-occurring mental health and substance related problems. Alongside my practice as a nurse, I specialized in substance related problems and finished my master´s degree in clinical heath care. I defended my dissertation march of 2016, and currently I am working as an associate professor at the faculty of health care along with doing research related to mental health and substance related topics.
ABSTRACT:
Experiences of hope within mental health and substance use services
Hope is important to recovery processes in a wide range of health conditions, including those associated with mental health and substance abuse. Its implications for research and practice, however, has gained limited attention in relation to co-occurring problems. This presentation will revolve around my PhD thesis and offers an insight in how hope might be experienced from a service user and professional perspective. The presentation also offers some implications to practice and reflections on different ways of approaching the phenomenon hope. The study fits within an action research methodology. Data was collected using in-depth interviews of eight healthcare workers and nine service users. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and a thematic analysis was applied.