This book explores what we mean by recovery in mental health, providing a deeper, evidence-based understanding of the concept. It amplifies the voices of users and families and equips practitioners with the necessary knowledge and language to engage in recovery-oriented practice.
Recovery is a prominent term in mental health practice, but the word conceals multiple meanings, including biomedical, social tool, and humanistic perspectives.This book exposes this diversity in interpretation, exploring the foundational psychosocial understanding of recovery, contrasting it with the psycho-political concept, and offering critical insights and actionable strategies to integrate these perspectives into mental health practice, all grounded in empirical examples and theoretical perspectives.
This thoughtful book looks at how theory and research around recovery can be moved into practice. It is suitable for students and practitioners in mental health from a range of fields, including nursing, occupational therapy, anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, and family therapy.
This book explores what we mean by recovery in mental health, providing a deeper, evidence-based understanding of the concept. This thoughtful book looks at how theory and research around recovery can be moved into practice. It is suitable for students and practitioners in mental health from a range of fields.
1: Reconsidering 'Recovery': A Paradigm Shift in Mental Healthcare and
Society,
2. Political Dynamics and User Engagement in Mental Health Practice
towards Recovery,
3. Interpreting 'Recovery': Divergent Perspectives in
Mental Healthcare,
4. Clinical recovery one perspective moving beyond mental
health problems,
5. Human rights, Open Dialogue and Relational Recovery - a
revolutionary approach in mental health?,
6. Implementing Recovery in Mental
Health: From Treatment to Transformation,
7. Peer Support Workers: Pioneering
a Recovery-Centric Approach,
8. Utilizing digital technologies to create new
approaches to treatment and avenues for communication with individuals
receiving mental health care at home,
9. Understanding the significance of
family and social support in the recovery journey,
10. Using Co-operative
Inquiry to develop a Recovery-Focused and Inclusive Methodology in Mental
Health Care
Kim Jørgensen is associate professor at Faculty of Health Sciences,Department of Nursing and Health Promotion Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway and Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Health Services Research User Perspectives and Community-Based Initiatives, University of Southern Denmark (SDU). He works across Denmark and Norway on recovery, cross-sector collaboration, and user participation in mental health services.
