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Living after mental illness: innovations in services
- Editor:
- PATMORE Charles
- Publisher:
- Croom Helm
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 296p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Beckenham
Handbook of psychosocial rehabilitation
- Authors:
- KING Robert, LLOYD Chris, MEEHAN Tom
- Publisher:
- Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 227p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
The Handbook of Psychosocial Rehabilitation is designed as a clinical handbook for practitioners in the field of mental health. It recognises the wide-ranging impact of mental illness and its ramifications on daily life. The book promotes a recovery model of psychosocial rehabilitation and aims to empower clinicians to engage their clients in tailored rehabilitation plans. The authors distil relevant evidence from the literature, but the focus is on the clinical setting. Coverage includes the service environment, assessment, maintaining recovery-focussed therapeutic relationships, the role of pharmacotherapy, intensive case management and vocational rehabilitation.
Recovery in psychiatry
- Authors:
- SCHRANK Beate, SLADE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 31(9), September 2007, pp.321-325.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
In recent years, the concept of recovery from severe mental illness has increasingly gained relevance in the mental health field. Countries all over the world have been introducing recovery policy into mental health services However, there is still debate about the concept, such as whether symptom reduction is central or not. This article proposes a conceptual framework for recovery and identifies emergent practical issues. The term, two meanings, two classes of definitions which emerged from two different influences, can be identified for the term recovery in mental health. In psychiatry the idea of recovery is based on longitudinal studies demonstrating a widely heterogeneous course for severe mental illnesses. In this context, remission is defined as an improvement in symptoms and other deficits to a degree that they would be considered within a normal range. Recovery can be seen as a long-term goal of remission This is named service-based definition of recovery. A second definition of the term recovery came from the self-help and consumer/user/survivor movement. Here, recovery may include, but does not require, symptom remission or a return to normal functioning. However, recovery is seen as a process of personal growth and development, and involves overcoming the effects of being a mental health patient, with all its implications, to regain control and establish a personally fulfilling, meaningful life This is named the user-based definition of recovery. This is exemplified by the National Institute for Mental Health in England definition of recovery as the ‘achievement of a personally acceptable quality of life’.
The madness of our lives: experiences of mental breakdown and recovery
- Author:
- GRAY Penny
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 204p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
What precipitates mental breakdown? How do people experience such extremes – and how do they see others’ interpretations and interventions? Most important, how do people recover from these episodes and get their lives back? These are some of the questions addressed in this anthology of first-hand accounts of mental breakdown and recovery. Eleven very different stories together shed light on what triggers mental breakdown, what it is like to be ‘mad’, whether treatment helps and how people reclaim themselves and their lives. Based on tape-recorded interviews with people who have been through a mental breakdown and come out the other side of it, the book breaks the silence around mental distress and offers hope and optimism to mental health service users and their carers.
In recovery: the making of mental health policy
- Author:
- JACOBSON Nora
- Publisher:
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 208p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Nashville, TN
For hundreds of years, people diagnosed with mental illness were thought to be hopeless cases, destined to suffer inevitable deterioration. Beginning in the early 1990s, however, providers and policymakers in mental health systems came to promote recovery as their goal. But what does recovery truly mean? Traditionally, recovery was defined as symptom abatement or a return to a normal state of health, but as activists, mental health professionals, and policymakers sought to develop “recovery-oriented” systems, other meanings emerged. This analysis describes the complexes of ideas that have defined recovery in various contexts over time. The first meaning, “recovery-as-evidence,” involves the theories, statistics, therapies, legislation, and myriad other factors that constituted the first one hundred years of mental health services provision in the United States. “Recovery-as-experience” brought the voices of patients into the conversation, while “recovery-as-ideology” drew on both recovery-as-evidence and recovery-as-experience to rally support for specific approaches and service-delivery models. This in turn became the basis for “recovery-as-policy,” which developed as assorted representative bodies, such as commissions and task forces, planned reforms of the mental health system. Finally, “recovery-as-politics” emerged as reformers confronted harsh economic realities and entrenched ideas about evidence, experience, and ideology.
Emotionally handicapped youth in transition: issues and principles for program development
- Author:
- MODRCIN Matthew J.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 25(3), 1989, pp.219-227.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Discusses principles which must underpin all plans for treatment of adolescents to ensure a successful transition to adult life.
Mental health at work
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Health and Safety Executive
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A booklet giving advice on mental health in employment; factors that affect mental health at work; promotion and maintenance of mental health; recognition of possible mental health problems; intervention; and return to work.
Mental illness: policies for prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and care
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health and Social Security. Mental Health Division
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health and Social Security
- Publication year:
- 1983
- Pagination:
- 9p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Enabling recovery: the principles and practice of rehabilitation psychiatry
- Editors:
- ROBERTS Glenn, et al, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Gaskell
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 405p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book gives an up-to-date overview of contemporary rehabilitation psychiatry, encompassing the shift away from ongoing treatment and institutionalisation of those with long-term mental health problems, towards rekindling hope of and opening routes to personal recovery. It offers a practical and operational guide to service development - perfect for practitioners wanting to update and reflect on their practice and is divided into four main parts: a general introduction; therapeutic practices; services and organisational perspectives; and special considerations and settings.
Whose recovery is it anyway?
- Author:
- SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES NETWORK
- Publisher:
- Social Perspectives Network
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 66p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Recovery is increasingly seen as a progressive way forward in mental health. But to what extent is the current thinking and practice around recovery relevant to and inclusive of service users from diverse sections of the community, such as black and minority ethnic groups, (BME) lesbian, gay and bisexual communities (LGB) and women? This study contributes to this debate.