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Mental Health Recovery
WHAT IS MENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY
Mental health recovery is about helping yourself or other people who suffer from mental health problems to find a way of coping with mental illness. It is not about cure but about learning to cope with and overcome mental health disability. Mental health recovery is based upon hope, trust and self determination.The links provided in this website will take you across the world to places that value recovery. There is a great deal of information available at these sites to help you on your road to recovery.
However even though there are many resources out there finding them can be time consuming and exhausting. This site intends to keep you updated with developments nationally and internationally but because this is a free website space is limited.
Many of the sites include advice, personal stories, information and research. Links are included in the text and in the short list at the bottom if this page. For example there is a good handbook on recovery called Personal Assistance in Community Existence (PACE)- which can be found and downloaded for free from the National Empowerment Centre by clicking on the word PACE here.
AREAS OF RECOVERY IN MENTAL HEALTH
Some models of recovery (see below) have identified areas of your life that can and is improved during recovery from mental illness. This may be in small steps but is worth taking notice of as a way of identifying that recovery is taking place. Most of the time we don't notice these changes until someone points them out to us. Help may be found in a variety of forms including
Meaningful Activity
Housing or
Supported Employment,
Medication
Training and/orEducation
Social Support and
Talking/Complimentary Therapies.
In addition people need good
Physical Health
and access to adequate resources including
Money and other Benefits
EMPOWERMENT AND RECOVERY
Mental health recovery is an empowering whole person approach that has been researched by service users for service users who are the experts of their own mental, physical, social and spiritual health.
Please feel free to email me with any other websites you think might be useful to others who are beginning their own recovery.
HAFAL Recovery Model
HOPE Recovery Model
Pat Deegan's Recovery Model
WRAP Recovery Model
NIMHE Emerging Best Practice
National Empowerment Centre
Send E-Mail to: m.lloyd@newi.ac.uk
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