Psychological Recovery: Beyond Mental Illness - Hardcover

Andresen, Retta; Oades, Lindsay G.; Caputi, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470711434 ISBN 13: 9780470711439

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

Synopsis

This book offers a succinct model of recovery from serious mental illness, synthesizing stories of lived experience to provide a framework for clinical work and research in the field of recovery.
• Places the process of recovery within the context of normal human growth and development
• Compares and contrasts concepts of recovery from mental illness with the literature on grief, loss and trauma
• Situates recovery within the growing field of positive psychology – focusing on the active, hopeful process
• Describes a consumer-oriented, stage-based model of psychological recovery which is unique in its focus on intrapersonal processes

About this title

About the Author

Retta Andresen is a Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Her research into the process of recovery and its measurement has received national and international recognition and interest.

Lindsay Oades is a Clinical and Health Psychologist and Director of the Australian Institute of Business Wellbeing at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He has been awarded numerous national awards for his mental health research.

Peter Caputi is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is a consulting editor for the Journal of Constructivist Psychology and The Journal of Psychology:  Interdisciplinary and Applied.

From the Back Cover

Many countries have introduced policies that stipulate mental health services be ‘recovery-oriented’. However, there is no widespread accepted definition of recovery, an understanding of the process, and how services are to become recovery-oriented, or consensus on how recovery should be assessed. Where conceptual models have been proposed, they tend to be complex and do not lend themselves readily to routine use and research purposes.

This book presents a consumer-orientated, stage-based model of psychological recovery from serious mental illness, synthesizing stories of lived experience to provide a framework for clinical work and research in the field of recovery. Each stage of the recovery process is illustrated with patient experiences, which are then placed in the context of existing theory in fields such as trauma, hope, self-determination, identity, and wellbeing. Three measures of recovery are also presented, providing recovery-based additions to the array of outcome measures commonly used in mental health settings.

Placing recovery within the growing field of positive psychology, this book fills a need in the mental health professional community for a succinct model of recovery from mental illness. It offers a thorough grounding in the history of the concept of recovery, a deep appreciation of the mental health consumer’s experience of psychological recovery, an understanding of the conceptual model, and an awareness of the issues surrounding recovery measurement.

This book presents a consumer-orientated, stage-based model of psychological recovery from serious mental illness, synthesizing stories of lived experience to provide a framework for clinical work and research in the field of recovery. Each stage of the recovery process is illustrated with patient experiences, which are then placed in the context of existing theory in fields such as trauma, hope, self-determination, identity, and wellbeing. Three measures of recovery are also presented, providing recovery-based additions to the array of outcome measures commonly used in mental health settings.

Placing recovery within the growing field of positive psychology, this book fills a need in the mental health professional community for a succinct model of recovery from mental illness. It offers a thorough grounding in the history of the concept of recovery, a deep appreciation of the mental health consumer’s experience of psychological recovery, an understanding of the conceptual model, and an awareness of the issues surrounding recovery measurement.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470711434
• ISBN 13: 9780470711439
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216