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Recovery in mental illness : broadening our understanding of wellness /

Recovery in mental illness : broadening our understanding of wellness / edited by Ruth O. Ralph and Patrick W. Corrigan. - 1st ed. - Washington, D.C. : London : American Psychological Association ; Eurospan [distributor], c2005. - xi, 279 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Recovery as consumer vision and research paradigm / Research methods for exploring and assessing recovery Beyond dementia praecox : findings from long-term follow-up studies of schizophrenia Sociological models of recovery Recovery from schizophrenia : a criterion-based definition -- Verbal definitions and visual models of recovery : focus on the recovery model Qualitative studies of recovery : what can we learn from the person? Mutual-help groups and recovery : the influence of settings on participants\' experience of recovery Daring to pick up pieces of the puzzle : a consumer-survivor model of healing from childhood sexual abuse Recovery from addiction and from mental illness : shared and contrasting lessons -- Patrick W. Corrigan Ruth O. Ralph -- David Loveland Katie Weaver Randall Patrick W. Corrigan -- Joseph D. Calabrese Patrick W. Corrigan -- Fred E. Markowitz -- Robert P. Liberman Alex Kopelowicz -- Ruth O. Ralph -- Larry Davidson David Sells Stephanie Sangster Maria O\'Connell -- Katie Weaver Randall Deborah A. Salem -- Mary Jane Alexander Kristina Muenzenmaier Jeanne Dumont Mary Auslander -- William White Michael Boyle David Loveland

The authors bring together available data on the phenomenon of recovery from serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia and psychic trauma. They suggest that various degrees of recovery are more realistic than commonly thought.

9781591471639 (hbk.) : £36.50 159147163X

2004003910


Psychiatry--Research--Methodology
Mental health.
Mentally ill--Rehabilitation
Mental illness--Prognosis
Health and Wellbeing.
Psychiatry

RC439.5 / .R4228 2005

616.891 RAL 616.89/1

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