Conference paper

RECOVERY - RESHAPING SCIENTIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

Michaela Amering ; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Abstract

Recovery-concepts have travelled from margin movements
into mainstream psychiatry rapidly in recent years. Recovery
advocacy has been joined by recovery research resulting in
new information on the long-term perspectives of people
experiencing severe mental health problems. Emerging data
on recovery outcomes as well as processes bring on a
paradigm shift from prognostic scepticism and focus on
maintenance therapies towards an optimistic outlook and
recovery-oriented interventions and services. The emerging
evidence-base for recovery-orientation essentially includes the
urgent call for a partnership approach allowing the full
involvement of users and their families and friends and the
exploit of their expertise. Patient self-determination, individual
choice of flexible support and opportunities, intervenetions
to promote empowerment and hope also in the longterm,
as well as assistance in situations of calculated risk are
new indicators of quality of services.
The dynamic complexities of recovery and resilience have
the ability to capture the progress in biological, psychological,
social and political advances in the direction of
modern integrated and subject-oriented psychiatry. Cooperative
and coordinated efforts together with consumers, carers,
their spokespersons and public health advocates offer
formidable chances to reduce stigma, discrimination and
social exclusion, currently seriously limiting clinical and other
efforts towards recovery.

Keywords

recovery; mental health; evidence-based medicine; research; measures; user involvement

Hrčak ID:

106333

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/106333

Publication date:

20.12.2012.

Article data in other languages: german

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