... of user participation in mental healthcare. Goffman (1981) used the term “footing” to refer to how participation statuses or social identities could be established, negotiated or changed through and during social interaction, whether verbal or non-verbal. The way we act toward and talk to or about other...

... the Social Worker just follows legal guidelines. Interaction in mental healthcare is experienced as lacking trust, involving threat, but sometimes negotiation is possible. Control over illness is associated with having a choice of treatments. Psychosis is not experienced as a separate illness process...