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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
Foreword by Jon Strang. Preface. Part I – Recovery in Historical Context. Chapter 1 Introduction: Recovery from schizophrenia. Chapter 2 Conceptualising recovery: A consumer-oriented approach. Part II – Elaboration of the model: from Hopelessness to Flourishing. Chapter 3 Moratorium - The first stage of psychological recovery. Chapter 4 Awareness – The second stage of psychological recovery . Chapter 5 Preparation - The third stage of psychological recovery. Chapter 6 Rebuilding - The fourth stage of recovery. Chapter 7 Growth – the fifth stage of psychological recovery. Chapter 8 Common questions regarding the stage model of psychological Recovery. Part III – Measuring recovery. Chapter 9 Recovery-oriented outcome measurement. Part IV– Towards a positive future. Chapter 10 Psychological Recovery and Positive Psychology. Chapter 11 Reflections and future directions. Afterword. Index.
Subject Areas: Psychology [JM]
