Psychological Recovery: Beyond Mental Illness

Many countries have introduced policies that stipulate mental health services be ‘recovery–oriented’. However, there is no widespread accepted definition of recovery, an understanding of the process, and how services are to become recovery–oriented, or consensus on how recovery should be assessed. Where conceptual models have been proposed, they tend to be complex and do not lend themselves readily to routine use and research purposes. 
This book presents a consumer–orientated, stage–based model of psychological recovery from serious mental illness, synthesizing stories of lived experience to provide a framework for clinical work and research in the field of recovery. Each stage of the recovery process is illustrated with patient experiences, which are then placed in the context of existing theory in fields such as trauma, hope, self–determination, identity, and wellbeing. Three measures of recovery are also presented, providing recovery–based additions to the array of outcome measures commonly used in mental health settings.
Placing recovery within the growing field of positive psychology, this book fills a need in the mental health professional community for a succinct model of recovery from mental illness. It offers a thorough grounding in the history of the concept of recovery, a deep appreciation of the mental health consumer’s experience of psychological recovery, an understanding of the conceptual model, and an awareness of the issues surrounding recovery measurement.

Spis treści:
Foreword by Jon Strang.
Preface.
Part I – Recovery in Historical Context.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Recovery from schizophrenia.
Chapter 2 Conceptualising recovery: A consumer–oriented approach.
Part II – Elaboration of the model: from Hopelessness to Flourishing.
Chapter 3 Moratorium – The first stage of psychological recovery.
Chapter 4 Awareness – The second stage of psychological recovery .
Chapter 5 Preparation – The third stage of psychological recovery.
Chapter 6 Rebuilding – The fourth stage of recovery.
Chapter 7 Growth – the fifth stage of psychological recovery.
Chapter 8 Common questions regarding the stage model of psychological Recovery.
Part III – Measuring recovery.
Chapter 9 Recovery–oriented outcome measurement.
Part IV– Towards a positive future.
Chapter 10 Psychological Recovery and Positive Psychology.
Chapter 11 Reflections and future directions.
Afterword.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Retta Andresen is a Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Her research into the process of recovery and its measurement has received national and international recognition and interest.
Lindsay Oades is a Clinical and Health Psychologist and Director of the Australian Institute of Business Wellbeing at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He has been awarded numerous national awards for his mental health research.
Peter Caputi is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is a consulting editor for the Journal of Constructivist Psychology and The Journal of Psychology:  Interdisciplinary and Applied.

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Many countries have introduced policies that stipulate mental health services be ‘recovery–oriented’. However, there is no widespread accepted definition of recovery, an understanding of the process, and how services are to become recovery–oriented, or consensus on how recovery should be assessed. Where conceptual models have been proposed, they tend to be complex and do not lend themselves readily to routine use and research purposes. 
This book presents a consumer–orientated, stage–based model of psychological recovery from serious mental illness, synthesizing stories of lived experience to provide a framework for clinical work and research in the field of recovery. Each stage of the recovery process is illustrated with patient experiences, which are then placed in the context of existing theory in fields such as trauma, hope, sel f–determination, identity, and wellbeing. Three measures of recovery are also presented, providing recovery–based additions to the array of outcome measures commonly used in mental health settings.
Placing recovery within the growing field of positive psychology, this book fills a need in the mental health professional community for a succinct model of recovery from mental illness. It offers a thorough grounding in the history of the concept of recovery, a deep appreciation of the mental health consumer’s experience of psychological recovery, an understanding of the conceptual model, and an awareness of the issues surrounding recovery measurement.