Psychological Recovery

By Retta Andresen, Lindsay G. Oades, Lindsay G Oades, et al.

Book Overview

This book offers a succinct model of recovery from serious mental illness, synthesizing stories of lived experience to provide a framework for clinical work and research in the field of recovery.
- Places the process of recovery within the context of normal human growth and development
- Compares and contrasts concepts of recovery from mental illness with the literature on grief, loss and trauma
- Situates recovery within the growing field of positive psychology - focusing on the active, hopeful process
- Describes a consumer-oriented, stage-based model of psychological recovery which is unique in its focus on intrapersonal processes

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470711426
• ISBN13: 9780470711422
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.6" x 9.5"