Chances and problems of the recovery approach from a psychiatric viewpoint

Abstract

The so-called recovery approach is consciously demarcated from traditional psychiatry and enforces claims to introduce a paradigmatically new view on mental healthcare. Recovery is perceived as an individual-centered activating process, enabling mentally ill persons to live with hope and meaning despite disabilities. In some countries recovery is widely used by psychiatric nurses and mental health workers and to some extent is now part of national health programs. Nevertheless, concerted discussions from a psychiatric perspective are rare and the nomenclature is sometimes vague. A brief review of the model, its theoretical roots and the discussion on whether it is novel is given. Finally, strengths and critical aspects of the approach are compared and clinical questions exemplified.

Tidal Model in Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing Practices

“…Individual history is much more important and there may be resources that will contribute to the recovery in the past experience that could be contributing to the improvement of knowledge and experience in all aspects. For this reason, this is the recovery model, which is currently used more often (Dammann 2014). Numerous authors have defined the practices that lead to the healing and recovery based on the concept of recovery, the methods and studies used in these practices (Amering and Schmolke 2012).…”

An Example of a Model for Practicing Community Mental Health Nursing: Recovery

“…Although there are many attempts to identify the elements that constitute the recovery, there is no consensus on the issue yet (Dammann 2014). For example, Onken and his colleagues (2007) talk about the existence of individual and individual motivation factors in recovery.…”

“…All elements that can be called the quality of life of an individual must be included in the process (for example, the environment of the profession, the neighborhood or the place where he / she resides). Zuaboni et al (2012) and Dammann (2014) describe the hope, meaning Psikiyatride Güncel Yaklaşımlar -Current Approaches in Psychiatry and function of some of the elements of the recovery, namely control, selfdetermination, personal growth.…”

“…It is important to raise awareness about the patient's subjective aspects, religious and spiritual life plans. This issue is often neglected (Dammann 2014). At this point, there are many interaction points with anthropological and psychotherapy based psychiatry (Viktor Frankl, Maslov's basic needs hierarchy, Rogers speech therapy, neopsychoanalytic psychosis psychotherapy).…”

Wie viel Recovery steckt in der therapeutischen Theaterarbeit?

“…Recovery wird dabei als Prozess verstanden. "Recovery ist somit […] nicht nur ein stabiler Zustand der erreicht werden kann, sondern ein dauernder Prozess" [4].…”