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Stories of Recovery
A Journey of Recovery becomes a Mission to Promote the Recovery Approach
To affect real change requires more than just talk. One must put words into action and 'walk the walk'. Rona McBriety has done just that. After years in Scotland's mental health system, Rona discovered the recovery approach to mental illness, experienced success with the approach and now promotes it at conferences and training sessions.Read more.
Encouraging Recovery:
New Areas of Care and Practitioner Self-care.
Recovery is a recurring theme throughout life - whether it is recovery from physical trauma, the loss of a loved one, a career set back or mental illness. With the commitment of practitioners like Norine Thompson, the recovery approach to mental illness is gaining understanding and respect - and advancing into new sectors of social care. Read more.
From Less Sick to More Well:
Shifting the Focus of a Mental Health Team
The treatment approach to mental illness tries to make people 'less sick' by managing or eliminating symptoms. The recovery approach attempts to make people 'more well' by encouraging hope and happiness. Like the proverbial glass that is half full, the recovery approach is optimistic and measures success in positive terms - the same terms that are used by the general population: self-determination, friendships, contribution to community.
read more...Seeing Beyond the Illness to the Person:
The Recovery Approach and Community Mental Health
COTA Health provides community-based rehabilitation and mental health services to over 36,000 clients in Ontario every year. Nearly 800 employees and volunteers help individuals to live their best life by delivering services within the organization's values of being client-centred, dedicated, innovative and collaborative. As Vice President of Mental Health & Community Support Services, Paul Bruce is a guardian of these values. He recognises that how they are implemented will change over time and has been interested in one particular influence of change on the 'client-centred' value: the recovery approach to mental illness.
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