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Recovery from mental illness: changing the focus of mental health services

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

Abiola Oshodi  and
Gavin Rush
Abiola Oshodi
Affiliation:
St Patrick's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
Gavin Rush
Affiliation:
St Patrick's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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Abstract

The concept of recovery entered the lexicon of the mental health services in the 1980s following the publication of a series of studies and personal narratives which demonstrated that the course of mental illness was not always one of inevitable deterioration and that people diagnosed with severe mental illness could reclaim or recover meaningful lives. For a long time, recovery was not thought possible by many family members, service providers and researchers. However globally, specific policy and clinical strategies are being developed to implement recovery principles although key questions remain. In fact, the possibility of recovery is still debated by some. In this paper, we include information about the recovery model and the medical model; we provide evidence for recovery and document changes in mental health practices and policies incorporating recovery as the guiding principle. We also attempt to address the debate as to whether recovery is an evidence based practice. We propose that evidence based practice should be complementary to value-based and narrative-based practices and we suggest an integrative model that maximises the virtues and minimises the weaknesses of each practices (see Figure 1).

Keywords

RecoveryEvidence based practiceNarrative based practiceValue based practiceAssessment of RecoveryRecovery modelMedical ModelThe Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)The Future of Recovery
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Perspective
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Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , September 2011 , pp. 161 - 164
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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