A Collaborative Approach; Reimagining Caring

Living with a mental illness in Canada is complex and not well understood. The research question for this project is; when and how do people with a chronic mental illness feel cared for in palliative settings? This project will provide a unique opportunity for a student intern to partner with Health Cities, Mitacs and a research team from the UOA. The student intern will join the research team in a SSHRC funded project – Reimagining Caring. The project is an opportunity to work with researchers, clinicians (nurses) and people with a mental illness to understand more about the experience of care and caring from the perspective of patients and nurses. The project gives work integrated learning for students on social innovation practices with organizations like Health Cities in addition to the research methodology – collective narrative is an affirmative, trauma informed approach that uses storytelling to illuminate people’s lived experience and generate hope regarding the topic of concern – care and caring. This project will contribute new ways of thinking about care and caring. The codeveloped narratives will provide a unique learning opportunity to understand the experience of care and caring by people with a mental illness.

Faculty Supervisor:

Tanya Park;Tim Barlott

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Partner:

Health Cities

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Alberta

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