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The need to have clearer understanding about what we mean when we talk of "recovery", where ever we sit in the mental health system is more glaring in its importance as health systems work to evolve, improve and potentially cooperate with consumers, clinicians, families, service providers and government leaders.  

 

Andrew Shepherd from the "Mental Health Elf" in England, is encouraging discussion through his post Staff understanding of recovery-orientated mental health practice: A critical note of caution? 

http://www.nationalelfservice....8ec63bc10c-335580045

 

He notes that the research paper Le Boutillier C, Chevalier A, Lawrence V, Leamy M, Bird VJ, Macpherson R. et al (2015) Staff understanding of recovery-orientated mental health practice: a systematic review and narrative synthesis. Implementation Science, 10(1), 445–458. [Open Access] -  http://www.implementationscience.com/content/10/1/87

 

identified different descriptions of recovery, (see below) and this leads us to needing to consider the organizational influences of our understanding of recovery.

Clinical recovery

  • This theme equated recovery with clinical understanding in terms of symptom remission, insight, absence of relapse and mastery of daily living skills. Definitions within this heading were very focused on clinician based understandings of recovery.

Personal recovery

  • This theme constructed recovery as an holistic approach; sensitive to considerations of individuality and ideas of partnership working between professionals and service users.

Service defined recovery

  • This final theme presented recovery as a concept defined by organisations with administrative, primarily financial goals shaping the delivery of care and being measured through targets such as admission and discharge rates.

 

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Wow Bill, you must be psychic! Or you are intuitively tied into my brain (and that may or may not be a good thing for you) LOL

 

Part of my new position as the Peer Support Substance Use Systems Lead & CSI Lead (Consumer Survivour Initiatives Mental Health) for a new Sustaining & Enhancing Peer Initiative of our Mississauga Halton LHIN...is trying to figure out, map and define how paid peer positions affects and potentially changes recovery, how it affects and potentially changes an agency and how it affects and potentially changes systems.

 

Then the same will be done within the framework of volunteer peer supports and mentoring etc.

 

This information is very timely for me because I think your question "Recovery and service transition, can we do both?"... helps to define my focus and I think the answer to your question is that we HAVE to find a way to effectively do both at the same time and "Do No Harm" in the process.

 

Soon, I am going to be putting a call out for any Best Practice, Promising Practice, Evolving Practice, Grey literature...or any type of research/data etc., from Provincial, National and International regarding Peers, Lived Experience, Family engagement and merging into everything and anything that is relevant to the Substance Use/Addiction and/or Mental Health Service Delivery and Outcomes (and any other proven methods of the above that might exist outside the parameters such as Bereavement, Cancer Care etc)

 

If anybody has good stuff please throw it my way....

 

Betty-Lou Kristy

Lived Experience/‘Family’ Advocate- Mental Health, Addiction, Trauma & Bereavement

PROVIDING EVIDENCE from community to systems level policy, planning & governance

 

 

 

check out Mandiberg presentation, in one of my "replys" to own post.

https://www.eenetconnect.ca/top...and-impact-on-stigma

 

This group in Maine,Intentional Peer Support works a lot with the peer support network in Ontario, I hear.  

 

They seem a rather super bunch, from their training videos and program implementation documents. It could be applied and relevant as core training to anyone working in the mental health system as they focus on-- therapeutic process, use of self, etc. etc.

http://www.intentionalpeersupport.org/

 

cheers, Bill

 

Interesting talk on advancing recovery practices which equates/links staff & program recovery model change -- to be similar to our efforts to support client recovery.

Useful re-framing of recovery to be understood from the context of a "chronic" illness, it is different from illness.

Check out “Recovery 2012 - Mark Ragins” by Setla Productions on Vimeo

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The Mental Health Commission is launching renewed focus on the recovery model and how to implement within the mental health system.  Check out the initiative here. http://www.mentalhealthcommiss...lish/issues/recovery

Introducing Webinars on Recovery-Oriented Practice

The Mental Health Commission of Canada is hosting a series of free Recovery-Oriented Practice webinars on the third Thursday of every month at 1:00 p.m. ET. Sign-up for the first webinar in this series on Thursday, January 21, 2016, which will discuss recovery in mental health and introduce the Guidelines for Recovery-Oriented Practice.

SAMSHA's development of discipline specific practice of the recovery model is another key resource as targeted within the professions themselves.  See site here: http://www.samhsa.gov/recovery-to-practice

Six curricula were developed to promote greater awareness, acceptance, and adoption of recovery principles and practices among behavioral health practitioners.

Access training curricula by discipline:

 

 

Thank you once again Bill. I like the way that you take the time to find an original post that you created and then tack on the new info to that previous post.

I need to start doing that.

Because you do it that way helps to take readers back to the original post and it keeps the new info streamed into one collection of posts with many iterations dated overtime. Nice work.

That helps me because I can find it all as one collective thought and saves me trying to 'connect the dots' and search all over this community forum.

Betty-Lou Kristy

Lived Experience/‘Family’ Advocate- Mental Health, Addiction, Trauma & Bereavement

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