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Study
number
Aims, research
guestions
Methods
to assess the
process of how
addicts become
recovering helpers
The study was conducted in two drug rehabilitation centers
Participants: five male one female professional recovering helpers
Semi-structured interviews were conducted by the author of this book (the interviews
lasted 45-90 min.)
Questions assessed experiences as users, during the recovery process and while
working as helpers in the addiction field
1 to examine what is . ie »
. Topics that emerged from the text were first ordered into “emergent themes” and then
the connection . . . sche «
chronologically organized to reflect temporality or logic within the themes and “master
between recovery »
| themes” formed
and helping by . Em :
To increase reliability the emergent themes and master themes were defined in a group
utilizing IPA .
of researchers (the researchers who were the members of this group are co-authors of
Study 1)
The study was conducted in two drug rehabilitation centers
Participants: 6 male patients who were self-identified SC users and attended treatment
to examine Semi-structured interviews were conducted by the author of this book (the interviews
personal lasted 45-60 min.)
interpretations of | Questions assessed participants’ experiences of SC use, and how did they perceive
2 experiences themselves when they used the drug
derived from the | During the analysis emergent themes were formed and in the second stage patterns
use of synthetic | across the emergent themes were identified and clustered into master themes
cannabinoids To increase reliability the emergent themes and master themes were defined in a group
of researchers (the researchers who were the members of this group are co-authors of
Study 2)
The study was conducted in two drug rehabilitation centers, that work with a recovery
approach
Participants: 6 male patients who were self-identified SC users and attended treatment
to examine how | Semi-structured interviews were conducted by the author of this book (the interviews
the users perceived | lasted 45-60 min.)
their selves during | Questions assessed participants experiences of SC use, and how did they perceive
3 the use of SCs themselves when they used the drug
to assess how During the analysis, initial notes and comments were added upon the close reading of
identity formation | the interview transcript, and these were grouped into emergent themes. In the second
is affected by the | stage, patterns and themes across the emergent themes were identified a clustered into
use of SCs more abstract master themes
To increase reliability the emergent themes and master themes were defined in a group
of researchers (the researchers who were the members of this group are co-authors of
Study 3)
. The study was conducted in the Semmelweis University Community Psychiatry Centre
to explore the lived . | . ,
. Awakenings Foundation voice hearers’ self-help group
experiences of . . .
. . Participants: three female and three male patients were recruited who were members of
voice hearing 1 . .
Loue the voice hearing self-help group and who have experience of recovery from a mental
individuals
. health problem
to examine how . . . . . , . .
Semi-structured interviews were conducted by an interviewer (Märta Kiss) who is
participants make . : : ; :
sense oftheir working as a psychologist at the Foundation and knows the interviewees personally
4 . Questions assessed the experience of voice hearing and recovery, interviewees were
voices
to examine what
does recovery
mean in this
context
to explore the role
of self-help group
by utilizing IPA
asked to tell the interviewer freely about their life, especially about their psychic
disorders, problems or difficulties and about recovery
During the analysis the interview transcripts were analyzed; primary themes, keywords
and notes were identified, after active re-reading emergent themes were characterized,
by merging the emergent themes, master themes were defined
To increase reliability the emergent themes and master themes were defined in a group
of researchers (the researchers who were the members of this group are co-authors of
the Study 4)