Participate or re-adapt: Usages and effects of official participation procedures and groups in an establishment for people with cranial trauma
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Since the January 2, 2002-2 Act renewing social and medico-social action, the injunction to stimulate the participation of service users in the decisions concerning them has considerably modified the practice of professional teams. However, participation continues to raise questions for professionals. In an establishment taking in people mostly suffering from cranial trauma for a period of readaptation, how does the participation of service users in bodies created for this purpose fit in with the central task of readaptation, and with what effect on individuals and on the collectivity? Do service users themselves, weakened by a loss of their capacities— carrying with it a profound change in their self-image—, submit to the procedures involved, or, on the contrary, do they manage to seize them as a way of influencing the functioning of the institution, developing and obtaining recognition of their empowerment or even constructing new valued forms of identity.
Réseaux sociaux