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Discovering Hope for Recovery

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
September 2002

Abstract

The concept of recovery and recovery-oriented services and practices are well advanced in some parts of the world, particularly in the US and New Zealand. This paper provides a review of the literature upon which the hope for recovery is based, and explores this concept in the UK context, where it is now gaining recognition. In so doing, it identifies the background to the development of a consciousness of a possibility of recovery (both with and without mental health services support) and addresses the issues raised by the self-fulfilling concept of chronicity. It further examines the questions of measuring recovery and understanding recovery as a process or goal. It then goes on to identify themes within recovery literature and research, and to focus on recovery skills and self-care strategies for people diagnosed with schizo-phrenia, psychoses, or other serious mental illnesses. The paper concludes by addressing issues that have implications for more effective policy and practice—most notably resolving the fundamental tension between involvement with and separation from services (a process which will require a better under-standing of the role of values in the relationship between those who use and those who provide services).

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Le concept de «rétablissement» et les pratiques et services orientés en ce sens sont reconnus dans certaines parties du monde, particulièrement aux États-Unis et en Nouvelle-Zélande. Cet article donne un aperçu de la littérature traitant de la possibilité de rétablissement pour les personnes atteintes de problèmes psychiatriques sévères, et examine la signification du concept de rétablissement dans le contexte de la Grande-Bretagne, où ce concept reçoit une reconnaissance grandissante. L'article trace les bases du développement de la conscience de la possibilité de rétablissement (avec ou sans aide des services de psychiatrie) et clarifie les enjeux du concept auto-entretenant de chronicité. Il traite aussi des modalités permettant de mesurer le rétablissement et du concept de rétablissement en tant que processus et objectif. Il identifie les thèmes principaux présents dans la littérature et la recherche pertinentes, pour traiter ensuite plus spécifiquement de la capacité du rétablissement des personnes ayant reçu un diagnostic de schizophrénie, de psychose ou d'autre problème psychiatrique sévère et des stratégies employées par ces personnes pour s'aider elles-mêmes. Finalement, l'article aborde des questions touchant l'amélioration des politiques et des pratiques—surtout la résolution de la contradiction primor-diale entre l'engagement dans les services et l'éloignement des services. Pour faire du progrès dans ce sens, une meilleure compréhension du rôle des valeurs dans le rapport entre le clientèle et les intervenants et intervenantes sera nécessaire.

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 21Number 2September 2002
Pages: 13 - 33

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Version of record online: 12 May 2009

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Piers Allott
University of Wolverhampton
Linda Loganathan
Mental Health Recovery Educator
K.W.M. (BILL) Fulford
Universities of Warwick and Oxford

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