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
Daftar Isi
Foreword by Jon Strang.
Preface.
Part I – Recovery in Historical Context.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Recovery from schizophrenia.
Chapter 2 Conceptualising recovery: A consumer-oriented
approach.
Part II – Elaboration of the model: from Hopelessness to
Flourishing.
Chapter 3 Moratorium – The first stage of psychological
recovery.
Chapter 4 Awareness – The second stage of psychological
recovery .
Chapter 5 Preparation – The third stage of psychological
recovery.
Chapter 6 Rebuilding – The fourth stage of recovery.
Chapter 7 Growth – the fifth stage of psychological
recovery.
Chapter 8 Common questions regarding the stage model of
psychological Recovery.
Part III – Measuring recovery.
Chapter 9 Recovery-oriented outcome measurement.
Part IV- Towards a positive future.
Chapter 10 Psychological Recovery and Positive Psychology.
Chapter 11 Reflections and future directions.
Afterword.
Index.
Tentang Penulis
Retta Andresen is a Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Her research into the process of recovery and its measurement has received national and international recognition and interest.
Lindsay Oades is a Clinical and Health Psychologist and Director of the Australian Institute of Business Wellbeing at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He has been awarded numerous national awards for his mental health research.
Peter Caputi is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is on the editorial board for the Journal of Constructivist Psychology and a consulting editor for The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied.