In Recovery: The Making of Mental Health Policy

by Nora Jacobson

Book Overview

For hundreds of years, people diagnosed with mental illness were thought to be hopeless cases, destined to suffer inevitable deterioration. Beginning in the early 1990s, however, providers and policymakers in mental health systems came to promote recovery as their goal. But what does recovery truly mean? For example, to consumers of mental health services, it implies empowerment and greater resources dedicated to healing; to HMOs, it can suggest a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826514553
• ISBN13: 9780826514554
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"