A Practical Guide to Recovery-Oriented Practice: Tools for Transforming Mental Health Care

by Janis Tondora, Larry Davidson, Martha Staeheli Lawless, et al.

Book Overview

This book takes a lofty vision of "recovery" and of "a life in the community" for every adult with a serious mental illness promised by the U.S. President's 2003 New Freedom Commission on Mental Health and shows the reader what is entailed in making this vision a reality. Beginning with the historical context of the recovery movement and its recent emergence on the center stage of mental health policy around the world, the authors then clarify various...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195304772
• ISBN13: 9780195304770
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"