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Putting recovery into mental health practice
- Authors:
- SHEPHERD Geoff, BOARDMAN Jed, SLADE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, May 2008, pp.28-31.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
While the concept of recovery requires further development, the author argues that it provides a framework that could bring a radical transformation of mental health services in the UK. This article, based on a longer policy paper produced by the Sainsbury Centre, presents some of the key ideas and their implications for the delivery of mental health services.
Making recovery a reality
- Authors:
- SHEPHERD Geoff, BOARDMAN Jed, SLADE Mike
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 16p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Helping people to recover their lives should be the top priority for mental health services. This means giving service users the chance to determine what future they want for themselves and offering practical support to help them to achieve it. While recovery is already government policy, the reality is that mental health services still focus more on managing people's symptoms than their work, education and family life. Yet these are what matter most to most people. The authors say "Recovery is a truly radical idea. It turns mental health services' priorities on their heads. Traditional services wait until a person's illness is cured before helping them to get their life back. Recovery-focused services aim from day one to help people to build a life for themselves. The medical care they give is in support of that bigger purpose." Making Recovery a Reality says mental health services need to change radically to focus on recovery. They need to demonstrate success in helping service users to get their lives back and giving service users the chance to make their own decisions about how they live their lives.
Implementing recovery: a methodology for organisational change
- Authors:
- SHEPHERD Geoff, BOARDMAN Jed, BURNS Michael
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 19p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Recovery, the pursuit of quality of life by people with mental health problems, is core to mental health services in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, USA, as well as England (‘New Horizons’, 2009). Following two Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health’s papers about recovery in 2008 and 2009, this methodology for the organisational changes, needed and reported in 2009 (following workshops with over 300 professionals, from 5 mental health trusts and independent organisations), can be used by statutory/non-statutory mental health providers and health/social care commissioners to deliver a ‘person-centred’ service. The principles mirror those in the 2009 National Mental Health Development Unit commissioning guidance. With, sections entitled ‘developing and how to use the methodology’, ‘views of commissioners’, ‘assessing services at the outset’, ‘agreeing priorities for action’, ‘tracking progress’, ‘future developments’, with reference to SMART goals (specific, measureable, agreed-upon, realistic, time-based) and boxed areas highlighting 10 changes/challenges and defining 3 engagement, development, and transformation stages of organisational change, the text is followed by 10 frameworks for organisational change and 2 templates for identifying priorities. In addition, the authors relate health system reforms, such as the 2010 standard National Mental Health contract and the National Social Inclusion programme (2009) suggesting they might add leverage to driving providers towards recovery-oriented delivery.