Psychological Recovery - Retta Andresen, Lindsay G. Oades & Peter Caputi

Psychological Recovery

By Retta Andresen, Lindsay G. Oades & Peter Caputi

  • Release Date: 2011-07-13
  • Genre: Psychology

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