Recovery model
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The Recovery Model as it applies to mental health is an approach to mental disorder or substance dependence (and/or from being labeled in those terms) that emphasizes and supports each individual's potential for recovery. Recovery is seen within the model as a personal journey, that may involve developing hope, a secure base and sense of self, supportive relationships, empowerment, social inclusion, coping skills, and meaning. Originating from the 12-Step Program of Alcoholics Anonymous and the Civil Rights Movement, the use of the concept in mental health emerged as deinstitutionalization resulted in more individuals living in the community. It gained impetus due to a perceived failure by services or wider society to adequately support social inclusion, and by studies demonstrating that many can recover. The Recovery Model has now been explicitly adopted as the guiding principle of the mental health systems of a number of countries and states. In many cases practical steps are being taken to base services on the recovery model, although there are a variety of obstacles and concerns raised. A number of standardized measures have been developed to assess aspects of recovery, although there is some variation between professionalized models and those originating in the Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement.
See also
- Addiction recovery groups
- Anti-psychiatry
- Clinical psychology
- Celebrate Recovery
- Deinstitutionalisation
- Emotions Anonymous
- GROW
- Mental Health America
- Peer support
- Psychiatry
- Psychotherapy
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation
- Recovery International (formerly Recovery, Inc.)
- Social firm
- Social psychiatry
- Social work
- Self-help groups for mental health
- Soteria
- Therapeutic community
- The Village Integrated Services Agency (an award-winning non-profit mental health recovery program)
- Twelve-step program
- United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association