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Interactive Patterns between professional and Patient in supportive houses for serious mental ill

Interactive Patterns between professional and Patient in supportive houses for serious mental ill

Javier Saavedra
Universidad de Sevilla. Dep. Psicología experimental
fjsaavedra@us.es

Abstract
This study belongs to a research in progress about changes in life narratives of persons diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. These persons live in supportive houses in Andalusia which belong to a Public Foundation. In the present study the more important interactions between professionals and patients are described. It was carried out ten semistructured interviews to expert professionals who work in the supportive houses. The interactions face to face between professionals and patients is one of the essential factors that can help us to understand the process of patients’ recovery in these sceneries. The description includes very wide aspects as the special – temporal context, the verbal exchange, the emotional charge, the professional evaluation of the interaction, etc. The episodes that the professionals reported us can be classified in the six interactive formats.

Key words: Social interactions, Recovery, Supportive Houses.

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Javier Saavedra

Javier Saavedra
Universidad de Sevilla. Dep. Psicología experimental
fjsaavedra@us.es

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