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The Recovery Model

Recently embraced by consumers, families, providers, and the President's New Freedom Commission for Mental Health, 2003.

  • Recovery can be defined as:
    • Regaining meaningful social roles in society as one grows beyond the catastrophic effects of mental illness.
    • A deeply personal, unique process of changing one's attitudes, values, feelings, goals, skills and/or roles.
    • Maintaining as much freedom, independence and autonomy as possible, making as many decisions as possible for oneself
  • Recovery does not necessarily mean:
    • The absence of symptoms
    • The absence of need for medication or other therapies
  • Underlying assumptions of the Recovery Model:
    • Recovery from severe psychiatric disabilities is achievable
    • Recovery is not a function of one's theory about the causes of mental illness
    • Recovery requires a well-organized support system
    • A holistic view of mental illness that focuses on the person, not just the symptoms

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