Building on Recovery: Embracing Community Inclusion in Mental Health Policies and Services.

Autor: Salzer MS; Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. msalzer@temple.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Community mental health journal [Community Ment Health J] 2024 Nov; Vol. 60 (8), pp. 1571-1578. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 05.
DOI: 10.1007/s10597-024-01309-z
Abstrakt: Recovery is real and has had a transformative impact on mental health policies and services, including shifting the focus from chronicity and symptom management to the realization that individuals with mental health issues can lead meaningful lives. However, recovery has been defined, described, understood, and measured in a wide variety of ways that may account for misuses and abuses in its application and possible stagnation in its impact. It is argued that the mental health field must now build upon the strong foundations of recovery by integrating a well-established rights-oriented framework. While recovery emphasizes personal growth and hope, a rights-based perspective underscores inherent dignity, autonomy, and opportunities for acceptance and embrace in engaging in valued social roles. The addition of a rights-based framework - community inclusion, to conversations involving recovery, is aligned with the origins of recovery and how it is commonly understood, and also connects the mental health field to the dramatic positive impacts that have emerged from the longstanding centrality of this concept in the broader disability community.
Competing Interests: Declarations. Conflict of Interest: The author has no conflicts of interest or competing interests associated with this paper.
(© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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