Psychological Recovery

Beyond Mental Illness

• Author(s): Retta Andresen, Lindsay G. Oades, Peter Caputi,
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Pages: 216
• ISBN_10: 1119975166
  ISBN_13: 9781119975168
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Psychology / Clinical Psychology , Psychology / General ,

Description:... 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