%0 Journal Article
%T Professionals¡¯ Experiences of the Relations between Personal History and Professional Role
%A Hege Sj£¿lie
%A Bengt Karlsson
%A Per-Einar Binder
%J Nursing Research and Practice
%D 2013
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/2013/265247
%X The purpose of this paper is to explore whether and how workers in a crisis resolution home treatment (CRHT) team experience the relationship between their personal history and professional role. This paper is based on 13 in-depth interviews with health professionals working in CRHT. The interviews were analysed using a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach. Participants expressed that there is a relationship between their personal history and professional role, and three themes are highlighted as particularly important in, namely experiences related to the participants as individuals, work-related experiences and family-related experiences. The participants write meaning into the relationship between their personal history and professional role. By relating and exploring their own life stories in the interviews, they work on forming meaning and identity. 1. Introduction Crisis resolution home treatment (CRHT) is a work approach that may put high emotional, relational, and professional demands on the team members. It challenges some traditional professional roles within the mental health care field by moving crisis resolution away from in-patient care and into the patients¡¯ home. In most western countries, the services for people with mental health problems have gone through major changes over the last decades [1¨C3]. Norway, like many other western countries, is experiencing a rapid transition from traditional institutional care to an expansion into community-based mental health care for people with mental health problems [4]. CRHT team workers¡¯ experience of their personal background and how they think it may contribute to their interest and motivation for their work roles as professionals is relatively little explored. The following research question will be explored and discussed. How do CRHT team members experience possible relations between their personal histories and professional roles? A professional role consists of experiences based on working background, education, career [5¨C9], and personal experiences [5, 7]. At the same time, the construction of a personal self is closely related to one¡¯s history, family background, and life experiences, including the narrative organization of everyday life and specific events that are memorable to them [10, 11]. If and how a professional role as a CRHT team member and the experience of one¡¯s personal self may be interrelated is an interesting question. The aim of this paper is to gain a deeper understanding by exploring how the team members reflect upon the experiences of their own personal histories and
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