Description

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

Author: Andresen, Retta, Author: Oades, Lindsay G, Author: Caputi, Peter

Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 470711426
Language: English
Pages: 190