| Title | : | Psychological Recovery |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Retta Andresen, Lindsay G. Oades & Peter Caputi |
| Release | : | 2011-07-13 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Psychology, Books, Health, Mind & Body |
| Size | : | 1453227 |
| 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 |
