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From the old school (biomedical) to the new school (bio-psycho-socialspiritual)! The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-IV, the standard for diagnosis of schizophrenia and other mental illnesses, describes the illness with such dark and devastating language that you may feel any hopes you have for your ill family member are based in delusion. Life was impossible. Dreams of independence were unattainable and that long-term institutionalization was inescapable. "Kiss of death diagnosis" Outcome of mental illness: poor prognoses with progressively downhill courses According to renowned researcher Courtenay Harding, Ph.D., recovery from mental illness has been researched and proven for decades, and she will cite ten studies from all over the globe as evidence (Harding, 2004). The irony is, as Harding will point out, you won't find a section on recovery in the American Psychiatric Association's (APA). "The psychology of adjustment attempts to adjust you to a baseline that is usually your lowest functioning level with a mental illness. Everything else you attempt to do is seen as delusional. A psychology of respect would be based on strengths and teaching skills, rather than trying to adjust you to your mental illness." (RECOVERY IN MENTAL ILLNESS Broadening Our Understanding of Wellness By Ruth O. Ralph & Patrick W. Corrigan. p. 33.) "Settings that rely solely on the medical model as a way to understand mental illness tend to focus on pathology and disease (Mead, Hilton, & Curtis, 2001) and to define recovery as a set of predetermined outcomes that emphasizes symptoms elimination and a return to premorbid functioning. This model of illness and recovery can be detrimental to a person's experience of recovery, because it undermines hope (Chamberlin, 1978; Lovejoy, 1984), which has been described as one of the cornerstones of recovery (Deegan, 1988)." (RECOVERY IN MENTAL ILLNESS Broadening Our Understanding of Wellness By Ruth O. Ralph & Patrick W. Corrigan. p. 176.)
Two contradictory sides of recovery and psychosocial rehabilitation
WAPR e-bulletin, 2014
Recovery is a relatively new concept used by those critical of psychiatry as well as by mainstream psychiatry itself, and turns against the therapeutic pessimism of past decades. “Recovery” can mean, among others things, rediscovery, healing, improvement, salvation, or the regaining of independence. A positive connotation of hope is common to all uses of this term, but it has many different implications, especially in combination with the administration or use of psychiatric drugs. For some, recovery means recovering from a mental illness, a reduction of symptoms, or a cure. Others use it to signify an abatement of unwanted effects of psychiatric drugs after their discontinuation, or the regaining of freedom after leaving the mental health system, or “being rescued from the swamp of psychiatry”.
Developing a model of recovery in mental health
BMC Health Services Research, 2009
The recovery process is characterized by the interaction of a set of individual, environmental and organizational conditions common to different people suffering with a mental health problem. The fact that most of the studies have been working with schizophrenic patients we cannot extend what has been learned about the process of recovery to other types of mental problem. In the meantime, the prevalence of anxiety, affective and borderline personality disorders continues to increase, imposing a significant socioeconomic burden on the Canadian healthcare system and on the patients, their family and significant other . The aim of this study is to put forward a theoretical model of the recovery process for people with mental health problem schizophrenic, affective, anxiety and borderline personality disorders, family members and a significant care provider.
Journal of Recovery in Mental Health ISSN 2371-2376
2017
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. KEYWORDS Recovery, Mental Health, Canada "Participation and inclusion do not involve changing people to fit in, but changing the world." 1 I am very honoured to be the first managing editor of this important publication. This journal will serve as a forum of learning and discussion about our ongoing understanding of recovery from mental illness. I would also gratefully like to acknowledge the support of our publisher, Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences. The establishment of this journal further realizes the organization's commitment to its vision of advancing both recovery-related research and practice.. Those who benefit from this initiative stretch beyond the walls of the hospital and will likely include mental health professionals and service users alike both in Canada and abroad. With these ambitions in mind, it is my pleasure to introduce our first themed issue of the journal, Recovery in Mental Health: Global Perspectives. Mental health systems, service delivery, and ultimately recovery potential are dependent on so many factors tied to the economic, social, political, and cultural contexts. The goal of this issue to provide a snapshot of a variety of mental healthcare landscapes across the globe, to share, and learn from the innovations of others in transforming systems and service delivery to optimize practice and the recovery environment. Mental health is a global issue. Reports of the global burden of mental illness estimate the lifetime prevalence of mental health disorders to be anywhere from 18.1%-36.1%. 2 For those with serious mental illness, the prognosis from medical professionals at times can be pessimistic and bleak. This makes personal recovery and the integration of recovery-oriented practice into service delivery all the more important to support those 2
On the very idea of a recovery model for mental health
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2010
The recovery model has been put forward as a rival to the biomedical model in mental healthcare. It has also been invoked in debate about public policy for individual and community mental health and the broader goal of social inclusion. But this broader use threatens its status as a genuine model, distinct from others such as the biomedical model. This paper sets out to articulate, although not to defend, a distinct recovery model based on the idea that mental health is an essentially normative or evaluative notion. It also aims to show that, supposing this suggestion were to be followed, the norms informing our notion of recovery would be more appropriately construed as eudaimonic than as hedonic in character.
An analysis of the definitions and elements of recovery: A review of the literature
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 2007
Article As mental health recovery gains traction, many people have put forward varying definitions. Few attempts have been made to create a dimensional analysis of the recovery literature that assesses the growing consensus about what recovery is or what its definition should entail. This paper incorporates an ecological framework to take the individual's life context into account while emphasizing both the reestablishment of one's mental health (i.e., first order change) and the mitigation of the oppressive nature of barriers imposed by the greater community (i.e., second order change) so that people may experience social integration and community inclusion.