Psychological Recovery
Beyond Mental Illness

Retta Andresen (Author), Lindsay G. Oades (Author), Peter Caputi (Author)

9780470711422, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 12 August 2011

216 pages
24.4 x 16.8 x 1.3 cm, 0.34 kg

"This is an exciting and important book that is sure to stimulate dialogue and debate within the rapidly growing international recovery movement." (TMCnet.com, 5 December 2011)

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 the authors xi
Foreword by Jon Strang xiii
Preface xvii
Acknowledgements xix

Subject Areas: Psychology [JM]