Partnering for Recovery in Mental Health

Book excerpt: Partnering for Recovery in Mental Health is a practicalguide for conducting person and family-centered recovery planningwith individuals with serious mental illnesses and their families.It is derived from the authors’ extensive experience inarticulating and implementing recovery-oriented practice and hasbeen tested with roughly 3,000 providers who work in the field aswell as with numerous post-graduate trainees in psychology, socialwork, nursing, and psychiatric rehabilitation. It has consistentlyreceived highly favorable evaluations from health careprofessionals as well as people in recovery from mentalillness. This guide represents a new clinical approach to the planning anddelivery of mental health care. It emerges from the mental healthrecovery movement, and has been developed in the process of theefforts to transform systems of care at the local, regional, andnational levels to a recovery orientation. It will be an extremelyuseful tool for planning care within the context of current healthcare reform efforts and increasingly useful in the future, assystems of care become more person-centered. Consistent with otherpatient-centered care planning approaches, this book adapts thisprocess specifically to meet the needs of persons with seriousmental illnesses and their families. Partnering for Recovery in Mental Health is an invaluableguide for any person involved directly or indirectly in theprovision, monitoring, evaluation, or use of community-based mentalhealth care.