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Eva Lena Strandberg

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Living in poverty with severe mental illness coping with double trouble

2016

AbstractObjectives: Several studies have pointed at a co-occurrence between severe mental problems and relative poverty. Also users refer to their strained financial situation as one of their main problems. We lack knowledge about how persons ‒ still characterised in diagnostic manuals as having difficulty with their sense of reality and their ability to carry out goal-oriented actions ‒ manage the ‘double trouble’ of having a strained financial situation and mental problems.Method: Sixteen persons diagnosed with severe mental illness were interviewed about how they managed poverty in their everyday life. The interviews were tape-recorded and analysed using the thematic analysis method.Resu…

medicine.medical_specialtyCoping (psychology)PovertySocial WelfareMental illnessmedicine.diseaseCommunity workMental health030227 psychiatry03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicinemedicine030212 general & internal medicineThematic analysisEveryday lifePsychologyPsychiatryNordic Social Work Research
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The costs of friendship: severe mental illness, poverty and social isolation

2016

Background: The relationship between severe mental illness, poverty and social isolation has been explored in a number of studies.Aim: The purpose of the study was to explore the relationship betwe ...

medicine.medical_specialtySocial workPovertymedia_common.quotation_subjectSocial Welfaremacromolecular substancesMental illnessmedicine.disease030227 psychiatry03 medical and health sciencesPsychiatry and Mental healthFriendship0302 clinical medicineSocial deprivationmedicine030212 general & internal medicineSocial isolationmedicine.symptomPsychiatryPsychologymedia_commonPsychosis
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