100 ways to support recovery A guide for mental health professionals
Rethink recovery series: volume 1
This is a guide for mental health staff, which aims to support the development of a focus on recovery within our services. It provides different ideas for working with service users* in a recovery oriented fashion.
It is written on the basis of two beliefs:
• First, recovery is something worked towards and experienced by the person with mental illness. It is not something services can do to the person. The contribution of staff is to support the person in their journey towards recovery.
• Second, the journey of recovery is individual. The best way of supporting an individual’s recovery will vary from person to person.
* Whilst recognising the term is contested, we refer to ‘service users’ because our focus is on people with personal experience of mental illness who are using services.
Since there is no ideal or ‘right’ service, it is not possible to provide step-by-step instructions for how recovery can be supported by mental health staff. This guide therefore provides a map, rather than a turn-by-turn journey plan.
At the heart of this report is a conceptual framework to identify what types of support may be useful. It is called the Personal Recovery Framework and is based on the accounts of people who have personal experience of mental illness. Translating this framework into practice is the goal of this publication.
Published : 30th November -0001
Author : Mike Slade [ More From This Author ]
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