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

Psychological Recovery

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  • Genre Psychology
  • Publisher John Wiley & Sons
  • Released
  • Size 1.39 MB
  • Length 234 Pages

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

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