Psychological Recovery: Beyond Mental Illness

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 [...]
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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