Articles for the Topic "Wellness and Recovery"

National Research and Training Center/Self Determination Tools

2010-06-03T02:04:14

The Center provides a series of tools to advance self-determination and person-driven services for use by people with psychiatric disabilities.

Recovery from Mental Illness: The Guiding Vision of the Mental Health Service System in the 1990s

2010-06-03T01:26:50

This article, written at the forefront of the recovery movement, was quite influential in framing the concepts particularly as they apply to service models. It outlines the fundamental services and assumptions of a recovery-oriented mental health system.

Recovery: The Lived Experience of Rehabilitation

2010-06-03T11:43:00

This article explains the differences between recovery and rehabilitation for people with serious mental illnesses. According to the author, through the recovery process consumers become active and responsible participants in their own rehabilitation. The experiences of recovery as lived by a physically disabled man and a psychiatrically disabled woman are discussed. Recommendations for creating rehabilitation environments that facilitate the recovery process are also given (author).

Shared Decision-Making and Medication Management in the Recovery Process

2010-06-03T12:42:58

Using medication is an active process that involves complex decision-making and a chance to work through decisional conflicts. Shared decision-making provides a model for the client and practitioner to work in partnership and assess a treatment's advantages and disadvantages within the context of recovering a life after a diagnosis of a major mental disorder.

What Is Recovery? A Conceptual Model and Explication

2010-06-03T01:11:48

This paper describes a conceptual model of recovery from mental illness. One aim of the model is to link the abstract concepts that define recovery with specific strategies that systems, agencies, and individuals can use to facilitate recovery.