Psychological Recovery: Beyond Mental Illness / Edition 1

by Retta Andresen, Lindsay G. Oades, Peter Caputi

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470711422
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	09/13/2011
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Retta Andresen is a Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Her research into the process of recovery and its measurement has received national and international recognition and interest.

Lindsay Oades is a Clinical and Health Psychologist and Director of the Australian Institute of Business Wellbeing at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He has been awarded numerous national awards for his mental health research.

Peter Caputi is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is on the editorial board for the Journal of Constructivist Psychology and a consulting editor for The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied.

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Table of Contents

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.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

This book addresses an international challenge in relation to recovery: how to bring empirical investigation to the consumer-developed understanding of recovery. The authors rise to this challenge superbly. They rightly position recovery as arising from the lived experience of people who use mental health services, and then develop an empirically-based understanding of the stages and processes of recovery. This empirical work has been internationally influential and the detailed description will be of wide interest. The authors then contextualise their work within the field of positive psychology and well-being research –areas which will directly inform the evolution of mental health services in the 21^st Century. I recommend this book, and hope it is widely read.
—Mike Slade, Researcher (researchintorecovery.com) and Author of ‘Personal Recovery and Mental Illness’

This book begins by examining the history of schizophrenia, and discerning the roots of pessimism in its outlook. The authors then introduce the concept of recovery, and their own model of its process, which is via a series of stages, which they show can be measured and used in treatment. One great value of a work such as this is that it injects factors that are often lacking in treatment environments, and sometimes in the minds of service providers, namely hope and optimism. As such, this book will be, or should be, of interest to all those who work with people with serious mental illnesses.
—Tom Trauer, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Australia

This is an exciting and important book that is sure to stimulate dialogue and debate within the rapidly growing international recovery movement. Based on years of interviews of, and conversations with, people with first-hand experiences of recovery conducted by leading recovery researchers in Australia, this book offers the beginning of a road map for the recovery journey that will be found useful by people with serious mental illnesses, their loved ones, and mental health practitioners alike.
—Larry Davidson, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University

Editorial Reviews

"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)

From the Publisher