Recovery-oriented Care in Public Mental Health Policies in Spain: Opportunities and Barriers

Abstract

Following the guidelines of the United Nations (2006) and the World Health Organization (2013Organization ( , 2019e, 2021b, the mental health and addictions strategic plans in our country currently propose a person-centred, community-based, recovery-oriented, and rights-based care. On December 2, 2021, the Interterritorial Council approved the new Mental Health Strategy of the National Health System (ESM-SNS, for the Spanish acronym) for the period 2022-2026 (Ministerio de Sanidad, 2022). This document considers personal recovery as one of its principles and includes care based on the recovery model in the community as one of its strategic lines. This paradigm shift had already begun previously in the mental health and addiction strategic plans of some regions. Among them, we can find the regional governments of Andalusia (

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