Psychological Recovery (eBook)

Beyond Mental Illness

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

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2011 | 1. Auflage
208 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-119-97515-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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

Autor

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.

Inhalt

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.

Rezensionen

"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 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 21st 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.7.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
• Schlagworte: Clinical psychology • Klinische Psychologie • Psychologie • Psychology
• ISBN-10: 1-119-97515-8 / 1119975158
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-97515-1 / 9781119975151