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Recovery in Mental Health Reshaping Scientific and Clinical Responsibilities

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ISBN-10: 0470997966

ISBN-13: 9780470997963

Edition: 2008

Authors: Michaela Amering, Margit Schmolke

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Recovery is widely endorsed as a guiding principle of mental health policy. Recovery brings new rules for services, e.g. user involvement and person-centred care, as well as new tools for clinical collaborations, e.g. shared decision making and psychiatric advance directives. These developments are complemented by new proposals regarding more ethically consistent anti-discrimination and involuntary treatment legislation, as well as participatory approaches to evidence-based medicine and policy.Recovery is more than a bottom up movement turned into top down mental health policy in English-speaking countries. Recovery integrates concepts that have evolved internationally over a long time. It…    
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Book details

List price: $89.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 4/17/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.90" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

Foreword
Introduction
Recovery - Developments and Significance
Recovery - Basics and Concepts
Definition
Political Strategies
Collaboration with Users of Psychiatric Services
Resilience-a Dynamic Recovery-Factor
Recovery, Prevention and Health Promotion
Recovery and Quality of Life
Recovery and Empowerment
Recovery and Evidence-Based Medicine
Recovery and Remission
Personal Experience as Evidence and as a Basis for Model Development
'Recovery - an Alien Concept' - Ron Coleman/UK
'Empowerment Model of Recovery' - Dan Fisher and Laurie Ahern/USA
'Conspiracy of Hope' - Pat Deegan/USA
'Holders of Hope' - Helen Glover/Australia
'Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)' - Mary Ellen Copeland/USA
'Two Sides of Recovery' - Wilma Boevink/The Netherlands
'No Empowerment Without Recovery' - Christian Horvath/Austria
Recovery - Why Not?
The Slow Demise of Incurability
Incurability
Chronicity
Other misunderstandings
Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
A Diagnosis or a Verdict - the Example of Schizophrenia
Heterogeneity of Course Over Time
Prognosis - 'from demoralizing pessimism to rational optimism'
Diagnosis - 'a century is enough'
Scientific and clinical responsibility
Classic Dimensions of Madness
Insight
Compliance
Capacity
Coercion
Psychiatric Treatment and Services
State of the art
Shortcomings
Recent developments
Stigma and Discrimination
Attitude research
Iatrogenic stigma
Stigma - experiences and expectations
Internalized stigma and stigma resistance
Social inclusion
The hearing voices movement
Recovery - Implications for Scientific Responsibilities
New Directions
The Increasingly Active Role of UK Users in Clinical Research
Assessing Recovery
Ruth Ralph and the Recovery Advisory Group
Examples of published recovery instruments
Recovery as a Process
Turning points - living with contradictions
Findings from four countries
Identity and recovery in personal accounts of mental illness
Recovery as lived in everyday practice
Qualitative research as one royal road
Recovery - Implications for Clinical Responsibilities
Sharing
Alternatives
Recovery-Factors in Therapeutic Relationships and Psychiatric Services
Recovery-oriented professionals
Recovery Self Assessment (RSA)
Measuring recovery-orientation in a hospital setting
Recovery Knowledge Inventory (RKI)
Developing Recovery Enhancing Environments Measure (DREEM)
Initiatives of the World Psychiatric Association
Psychiatry for the Person
A Person-centred Integrative Diagnosis
Recovery and Psychopharmacology
New goals and new roles for psychopharmacologists
Pat Deegan's concept of 'Personal Medicine'
A programme to support shared decision-making
System Transformation
Recovery-oriented services
Recovery-oriented mental health programmes
A Recovery-Process Model
Practice guidelines for recovery-oriented behavioral health care
Peer support and consumer-driven transformation
The Significance of Discovering Recovery for the Authors
References
Index