A Practical Guide to Recovery-Oriented Practice: Tools for Transforming Mental Health Care (Kindle Edition)

Review “[An] inspiring book, inspiring not through its loftiness (although it speaks of lofty goals) but in its practicality… Anyone who thinks about, talks about, and endeavors to promote recovery in relation to severe mental illness will find this book valuable, but it is perhaps most useful for the architects of “the system,” the administrators who can–and must–do the most to speed the revolution on its way.”–Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal
This book takes a lofty vision of “recovery” and of “a life in the community” for every adult with a serious mental illness promised by the U.S. President’s 2003 New Freedom Commission on Mental Health and shows the reader what is entailed in making this vision a reality. Beginning with the historical context of the recovery movement and its recent emergence on the center stage of mental health policy around the world, the authors then clarify various definitions of mental health recovery and address the most common misco (more…)