Mental Health Recovery

Abstract

Strengths-based approaches that emphasize culturally competent services and naturally occurring community support may be more appropriate than traditional mental health services for African American adults with psychiatric disabilities. An examination of the literature on service utilization and treatment needs for this population highlights the paucity of empirical studies in these areas, while an exploration of the literature related to psychiatric recovery, a prominent strengths-based framework, reveals insufficient application of the approach to the specific interests of African American service recipients. We suggest that recovery is in fact highly compatible with such culturally relevant approaches as the Afrocentric model, and argue that the

Structural and social determinants of mental health inequities among collegiate athletes during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Recovery grows up

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Therapeutic Alliance in Mental Health Nursing: An Evolutionary Concept Analysis

“…The consumer-driven recovery movement gained recognition in the 1980s, as consumers began to share their own accounts of recovery from mental illness, and brought hope to the possibility of recovery and a fulfilling life; recovery became an expectation, rather than a rare exception (Andresen, Oades, & Caputi, 2011 The concept of recovery is characterised by a consumer-led, ongoing process for the maintenance of a holistic wellbeing (Till, 2007). Hope and optimism, respect, self-motivation, empowerment, self-responsibility, the development of meaning and purpose, opportunity and choice are all fundamental to the concept of recovery (Andresen, Oades, & Caputi, 2003;Andresen et al, 2011;Dihoff & Weaver, 2012;Jones, Hardiman, & Carpenter, 2007;Onken, Craig, Ridgway, Ralph, & Cook, 2007;Slade et al, 2014;Till, 2007). Therapeutic alliance has relevance in a recovery-based healthcare culture in which partnership takes precedence over paternalism (Till, 2007).…”