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Recovery psychology/Lesson3

NOTE: This page is being updated, while two other pages are being written Identity Politics and Recovery Theory. The prior to discuss rhetoric and philosophy of social groups and the latter to discuss psychological theory. Behavior: anything that a living organism does -Journal of behavioristic psychology People do recover from mental illness-Journal of humanistic psychology People are living organisms --recovery psychologist
 * Journal of Humanistic Psychology Vol 45 Number 3 Summer 2005

 * The Canadian Mental Health Consumer / Survivors’ Lexicon of Recovery on PDF
 * Communication Theory Textbook
 * Introduction to Communication Theory Textbook

What is mental health recovery?
Generally, the recovery movement refers to the idea that the body tries to heal itself self from all illnesses naturally; there would be no reason to think that the brain is separate from the body; as more and more science has come to favor the emergent property theory of the mind-brain problem. The Brain being an organ will also try to heal naturally; the recovery movement focuses on those things that will assist this natural healing.

The President's New Freedom Commission On Mental Health defines recovery as "the process in which people are able to live, work, learn, and participate fully in their communities. For some individuals, recovery is the ability to live a fulfilling and productive life despite a disability. For others, recovery implies the reduction or complete remission of symptoms"

John M. Kane, M.D. Treatment Strategies to Prevent Relaspe and Encourage Remission from The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry Volume 68 2007 Supplement 14 p.27-30 states that: Recovery, in general, refers to sustained asymptomatic functioning without relaspe. This will drastically conflict with others concepts of recovery.

Liberman RP, Kopelowicz JV, Ventura J, et al. Operational Criteria and Factors related to Recovery from Schizophrenia International Review of Psychiatry 2002 volume 14 p.256-272 speaks of UCLA recovery criteria which is made up the following domains symptom remission, appropriate role functioning, daily living skills, and social interaction (similar to Partnership In Recovery.)

The idea of creating a recovery criteria is seen as being upsetting to some, while seen as beneficial to others. The question that is seen as valid by these persons is how does a clinician know that their work is done if recovery can not be as noticed as was the illness.

Various people will define recovery as something different, although most agree on certain principles which are the same. Recovery is living a meaningful quality life, despite a psychiatric condition. To many it is about a reduction in prescribed psychiatric medication. While to some degree it is about those who use the mental health services having a voice as in any other form of consumer psychology. It may address issues of mental freedom. Studying the Stages of Change from James O Prochaska and Carlo C. DiClemente’s Stage may help explain the choice to recover or why a person choses to recover. An effective tool of psychotherapy is Motivational Interviewing which is used to assist the person recieving therapy to come to the decision that they want to change their behavior; i.e. recover. "Recovery is the rule, permenent disease the exception."--Dorothea Dix 1854
 * Leading a horse to water : An action perspective on mental health policy
 * Beyond diagnosis: focusing on recovery
 * Recovery in the U.K. part1
 * Recovery in the U.K. part2 (on Behavioristic Psychology and Recovery)
 * Self-advocacy on Wikipedia
 * The Recovery Model by Les Mitchell
 * PDF comparing Recovery from Addiction to Recovery from Mental Illness
 * Article on Santa Cruz Community NAMI webpage
 * Kate Mulligan From Psychiatric News online
 * New hope for people with schizophrenia
 * Blue Ribbon Commission on Mental Health
 * An Empowerment Model of Recovery From Severe Mental Illness: An Expert Interview With Daniel B. Fisher, MD, PhD
 * National Consensus Statement on Mental Health Recovery
 * Recovery on Wikia Psychology
 * | NAMI on Recovery
 * What is Recovery?
 * Recovery Principles META services
 * fredfrese.com Article entitled Integrating Evidence-Based Practices and the Recovery Model, Part I
 * fredfrese.com Article entitled Integrating Evidence-Based Practices and the Recovery Model, Part II
 * Recovery Exchange
 * Interview with Pat Deegan
 * Some Factors That May Support Recovery
 * Max Gilford I can not find my way home
 * Recovery from Mental Disorders, a Lecture by Patricia Deegan
 * Faces and Voices of Recovery
 * International Network of Alternatives for Treatment and Recovery
 * Psychiatric Drug Facts
 * Powerpoint Presentation Virginia Psychology Leadership Conference
 * PDF Practice Guidelines for Recovery-Oriented Behavioral Health Care
 * NAMI New Hampshire Hope and Help PDF
 * Department of Veterans Affairs Session Sixteen – Empowering Your Loved One on the Journey of Recovery
 * What Is Recovery? A Conceptual Model and Explication by Nora Jacobson, Ph.D. and Dianne Greenley, M.S.W., J.D.
 * Recovering From Mental Illness Educational Documentary Video on You Tube
 * Harvey Rosenthal: Rights & Rehab
 * Soteria
 * See Psychiatric Survivor Oral Histories: Implications for Contemporary Mental Health Policy
 * A Matter of Definition

Co-occurring Disorders
Similar to Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step recovery groups, things like peer support and some concept of recovery exist. However there is a difference between "abstaining" from the action of "using" substances; which means not doing something (i.e. remission) which is termed as recovery and mental health recovery, in which a person does something mentally health (opposite of remission or abstaining.) Once known as dual diagnosis, the term co-occurring become more popular in usage to describe a psychological disorder with a substance abuse disorder. In the past the two were considered separate and treated as such. The prior term dual diagnosis can refer to developmental disability and psychological disorder (mental illness.) While the oldest extremely well known recovery group that employs a form of peer support was probably Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step groups for substance abuse, the 12-step philosophy is primarily rooted in an abstinence policy. A person with co-ocurring disorders may need to abstain from street drugs while using psychiatric medications. This is looked down upon by 12-steppers. Other resources such as Recovery Inc, Dual Diagnosis Anonymous and Double Trouble have developed as a 12-step philosophy that allows its members to use psychiatric medication. It is interesting to note, that while there is a move to use only person-first language, that the terms CAMI and MICAA (sometimes MISA) used to be or are sometimes used to describe persons with co-occurring disorders. CAMI standing for Chemical Abusing Mentally Ill and MICAA standing for Mentally Ill Chemical Abusers, and Addicted. A CAMI implies a person who generally is more of a substance user and may have an AXIS II diagnosis of personality disorder but not fit the criteria of mentally ill, despite the fact that a personality disorder is just such an illness. A MICAA or a MISA (Mentally Ill Substance Abuser) would fit more the criteria of a person with a psychological disorder (or mental illness) who is said to "self-medicate" their illness with substances. Although these labels are not person first and maybe seen as derogatory the concepts are still important to consider in understanding the dynamics of intra-stigma of persons in recovery.

Daniel Fisher Videos and Articles

 * Psychiatrist Daniel Fisher Talks About Hope and Recovery
 * Interview with Psychiatrist Daniel Fisher
 * Dinner Conversation with Dan Fisher
 * Someone who believed in them helped them to recover
 * An Empowerment Model of Recovery From Severe Mental Illness
 * Group stirs debate over schizophrenia
 * A Look At . . . Coping With Mental Illness We've Been Misled by the Drug Industry
 * People Are More Important Than Pills
 * Principle of Recovery Video plays in Media player

Recovery is a fact of Psychological Disorders
"...it is safe to say that as many as eighty percent may be expected to recover"--Thomas S. Kirkbride M.D.
 * Myth: Individuals with psychological disorders do not recover.
 * Fact: Studies and personal reports have documented that individuals with psychological disorders can often recover or “be in recovery” and lead meaningful lives.
 * Myth: The more severe the symptoms, the less likely recovery will occur.
 * Fact: The process of recovery and “being in recovery” can take place regardless of the extent and duration of symptoms. Everyone’s recovery is personally defined (this parallels the personally defined disorder-See Mental Illness-psychological)
 * Myth: If recovery occurs, a diagnosis of psychological disorder must be incorrect.
 * Fact: The recovery process can take place for each diagnosis or type of disorder.
 * Myth: Treatment and services are always the same for each specific psychological disorder.
 * Fact: Unlike the many years of indoctrination from clinical psychology, one size does not fit all persons with a particular disorder. There are many different ways for recovery to occur and there are many different individuals who can assist in a persons recovery, however many of these accept the stigmatization of others with psychological disorders.
 * Myth: Individual needs and personal goals can not be addressed until the symptoms of a psychological disorder are eliminated.
 * Fact: Regardless of the level of severity, it is essential to listen and respond to a person with psychological disorder stated goals at each point of their journey toward recovery.
 * Myth: Recovery is an end point or a “cure”
 * Fact: So far recovery is an ongoing process with ups and downs, starts and stops, on the way towards living a meaningful life. Someday, with research in to recovery, we may become closer to finding a cure for psychological disorders. In the past there was no research in to recovery, instead containment without quality of life being considered.
 * SEE Recovery is Real
 * SEE PDF from School of Social Work University of Wisconsin-Madison
 * SEE Article entitled The clinimetric approach to clinical psychology by Elena Tomba, Giovanni Andrea Fava speaks of recovery from psychological disorders in a quantifiable measurement.
 * SEE Bridges to Recovery

Mental Health Consumers Talk to Kent State Students

 * Karen C
 * Charles
 * John
 * Dale
 * Jim Part1
 * Jim Part2
 * Linda M
 * Linda R
 * Karen
 * Tammi

Recovery is not remission
Positive symptoms are the behaviors or features that are present as a result of a psychological disorder. Negative symptoms are behaviors or features that are absent as a result of a psychological disorder. Remission is the absence of positive symptoms in psychological disorders, meaning that a person’s abnormal behavior(s) has stopped occurring. Where as, recovery is more about the return of normal behavior(s) or the absence of negative symptoms. Remission is a clinical term for a state of absence of disease activity in patients. This does not describe a qualitative feature that is recovery in terms of psychosocial factors. If a person is "in remission" from a serious mental disorder, they are for the most part temporarily asymptomatic with regards to positive symptoms; recovery is concerned with both positive and negative symptoms. This does not mean that any of the conditions or consequences of sociological determinants of mental illness have sudsided. A person who is no longer delusional, hallicinating or depressed may still not have social skills, employment, or meaningful purpose, but may very well be in remission. Although some may mistakenly dilute the meaning of the word recovery. A good article to read that makes this point is : Harding, C. (2004). Remission vs. recovery: Two very different concepts. Conference presentation at Reclaiming Lives: What Professionals Need to Know About Assessment, Planning, and Treatment for People Who Appear to be Stuck on the Road to Recovery, Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, April 13, 2004. other authorities on the subject Side effects of medications are not considered positive or negative symptomology for psychological disorders, despite the abnormal behavior and morbid reactions that result from long term usage of the medications.  Those who work in mental health that see remission as the goal of treatment, feel these side effects are an acceptable trade off for persons with a disorder. This differs for those who seek out recovery as an outcome, having acknowledged that recovery from the side effects is often more difficult that recovering from the targeted disorder.
 * NASMHPD/NTAC e-Report on Recovery
 * Jacquelene Maus Feldmen Patrick H. Linton Department of Psychiatry University of Alabama at Birmingham
 * An article on a blog

For Example: In the case of the diagnosis of schizophrenia. The positive symptoms of schizophrenia are delusions, hallucinations, disturbances of thought, language and communication, disrupted motor coordination or awkward body movements. Negative symptoms for schizophrenia are affective flattening or flat affect, avolition, alogia and anhedonia.
 * 1) To say a person has this diagnosis of schizophrenia is to say that they have all or most of these symptoms present.
 * 2) The person with this diagnosis is prescribed medication. The prescribed medication is very likely to cause side effects.
 * 3) These side effects. are equivalent to the same kind of abnormal behavior, that is defined as a psychological disorder.
 * 4) The medication is likely to stop positive symptoms, but not address negative symptoms. This is Remission.
 * 5) So to be in remission from schizophrenia, a person does not have delusions, hallucinations, disturbances of thought, language and communication, disrupted motor coordination or awkward body movements, but may still have affective flattening, avolition, alogia and anhedonia along with the possible additional psychological disorder of pharmacological side effects. It is important to note here, that sometimes the side-effects of these medications include: Hallucinations, thought disorder, delusions, psychosis, depression and many other conditions which are 100% identical to the symptoms of the treated illness.
 * 6) Behaviors and Cognitive processes such as willingness, choice, decision making, coping, accepting, dealing with, living with...or even stopping the positive symptoms and the side effects could be clinically assessed by using assessment tools similar to those that found the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Of course holding the regard to these processes, that they are personally defined expierinces of the coping person, (just like the personally defined distress that was diagnosed) however it can be to some degree objectively observed as "how much drooling on one's self or blurred vision is an individual going to tolerate?"
 * 7) The expierince, behavior or phenomena that can be observed also in the terms of the developmental steps of regaining emotional reactivity (instead of flat affect,) the development of desire or discovering a self-drive or motivation to pursue meaningful goals (which is the absence of avolition,) the intiation of speech (instead of alogia) and the intentional seeking of pleasure and enjoyment (instead of anhedonia.) These behaviors require active choice making that many persons with psychological disorders have lost the ability to make. No person can make these choices for the person to recover. Since mental health social workers have done research in Psychiatric Rehabilitation and they have found that addressing the negative symptoms has a greater impact on changing the behavior associated with a persons positive symptoms, than addressing the positive symptoms directly, this new prespective has been termed as a recovery model. Qoutable from textbooks from Boston University This is Recovery.
 * 8) With all abnormal behaviors absent, the confounding side effects from psychopharmacology (new psychological disorder) being absent, and all the so-called normal behaviors being present, a person who is no longer meeting the criteria of abnormal as in abnormal psychology, the truth still remains that those who support the concept of recovery still say that this does not mean the person is cured of a psychological disorder. See Rosehan in Remission, See Patricia Deegan What Will Endure ?, Also see Moral Development of the mental health profession and compare to deinstitutionalization with respect to typical antipsychotic medications and atypical antipsychotic medications.  This requires critical thinking and reflection on the cultural psychology of the mental health profession.  In sociology there is the principle of human interaction does not occur in a vacuum.  If we only categorise, evaluate, assess, diagnose, label, and treat clients with psychological disorders, as if we are outsiders, and fail to acknowledge our role as service providers is due the same analytical scrutiny for study, we are failing the practice of scientific ethics.  The industry can not be "outside the microscope" and claim its validity.  For example:  The CATIE study has proven newer atypical antipsychotic medications to be safer than older first generation medications.  The newer medications are more coducive to the concept of recovery, than older medications which brought about remission with adverse side-effects.

Comparing mental health recovery to recovery from common medical disorders
The recovery concept has its implications for all medical sciences. See  EBM and EPB Being person-centered, having patient empowerment, patients becoming educated about their conditions, self-advocacy, peer support organizations for those surviving or coping with the condition, the right to a consumer influence on the policy making of pharmacuetical companies and other professional organizations, the idea of having hope, living despite an illness, patients being allowed to have choice... For an example of the recovery paralells to the treatment of Pulmonary hypertension see Susie Dodson: Chapter 1 - Susie's Journey to Stay Alive,Susie Dodson: Chapter 2 - Landing in the Right Place, and Susie Dodson: Chapter 3 - The Determination to Live, See Peer Network for Pumlonary Hypertension, See also Cancer Treatment Centers of America and Cancer recovery, See also Norman Cousins, See Psychonueroimmunology, See Patch Adams

Faces of Recovery

 * A Mental Health Consumer Blog with videos: Faces of Recovery
 * Faces of Recovery: LaFayette, Louisiana
 * Faces of Recovery: Bob Patterson
 * Faces of Recovery: David Kanar
 * Faces of Recovery: Sherry Jenkins-Tucker
 * Faces of Recovery: Jayme Lynch
 * Faces of Recovery: Mental Health Recovery in Georgia
 * Faces of Recovery: Peter Ashenden Speaks Out
 * Faces of Recovery: Denise Noseworthy, CPS
 * Faces of Recovery: Linda Buckner, CPS
 * Faces of Recovery: Shery Mead

Recovery Lectures

 * Northern Birmingham Mental Health NHS Trust and The International Mental Health Network Videos :
 * Recovery Section 1 Part 1 from virtualward on YouTube
 * In this video is an opening discussion on the Recovery concept, why recovery is important, that recovery is an individual and unique process, and that recovery is never done alone. It discusses how the Clinical view is different from Recovery view drawing on the work of William Anthony's 1991 Basic Assumptions of Recovery Oriented Mental Health System. One of the first understandings is that to recover, professional intervention is not always a must. Recovery can occur without professional intervention. Those who have left or escaped the mental health system, have returned in good recovery.
 * Recovery Section 1 Part 2 from virtualward on YouTube
 * In this part of the video the discussion on treatment and training for treatment, the importance of updated information. The former DSM (DSM-III) diagnostic description of Schizophrenia of being a illness of permenent deterioration, this information was based on data collected from crisis situations and hospitalizations. Courtney Harding and John Strauss studied the whole life course of people with schizophrenia, not just in the hospital, are quoted as saying "Only two-thirds of these people with the most serious disorders were indistinguishable from the general population" while one-third may have continued to experience noticable episodes of illness.
 * Recovery Section 1 Part 3 from virtualward on YouTube
 * This part continues on with the work of W. Anthony, C. Harding, J. Strauss, etc. Recovery from consequences from mental illness is much harder than from the illness itself. Mental illness is a disease that causes proverty, not by being a disease, but by the stigma and prejudices against the person with a mental illness. Discussing cultural diversity in psychiatric recovery. In Italy many people live with their families up until the age of 30; whether or not they are diagnosed mentally ill or not. (Imagine that! not hating your parents after 18 years!) However, the need for work, job, employment etc. has been found to a universal component for recovery from mental illness.
 * Recovery Section 1 Part 4 from virtualward on YouTube
 * Further the discussion of persons in recovery from mental illness in the world of work. When asked what was the most important support in helping a person recover 1. Family and friends, 3.Pets, 6. mental health professions 12. medications and as Courtney Harding was researching the 65% of people taking medication were doing better than others. She thought this was a significant factor. She was discussed this with a consumer who was doing great in her recovery. The consumer had a massive arsenal of medication from the pharmacy over fifteen years. It was found out by Courtney Harding that the consumer was not taking the medication but storing it up. When Harding asked this person "why are you spending your money every month to get these meds?" the answer was "to keep them off my back" basically the consumer lived with a certain level of fear that if she did not get this medication, there would be problems (external to herself or her illness)
 * Recovery Section 2 Part 1 from virtualward on YouTube
 * What is a Warm line? The process of recovery through using peer support and consumers working with consumers. You can only show a person how to walk down a road that you have walked down. What is helpful and what is not, redefining boundaries to fit the recovery model.
 * Recovery Section 2 Part 2 from virtualward on YouTube
 * Discussing the overlaying of trauma on the mental health sexual trauma, trauma, and peer support. It is found women recover from trauma by confiding in other women, the problem being most services in the past were not designed with gender being respected or considered. Many rules in placed in the mental health system prevent sharing of recovery stories, which prevents recovery. Disclosure became necessary for recovery. In Oregan seventeen psychiatrists applied for a jobs for a consumer run mental health organization. Mental health organizations prior to the development of peer support intiatives were the biggest discriminators who refused to hire the consumers of mental health services.
 * Recovery Section 2 Part 3 from virtualward on YouTube
 * The discrimination of mental health systems not hiring service users in the past, the core of recovery being understanding and taking responsibility for one's own life, where other professionals may know this intellectually they may not on a personally level. The process of recovery mirrors recovery from not psychiatric disorders. Many young people expeirince their first psychotic episode during the time when their age cohort has split away from them at the time when peer connections are the most critical. Process of greiving that loss of peer cohort is important to recovery. The nature and normal process must be encouraged. The risk is that the person may become stuck in the place of trauma, there may be a long term chronic loss of motivation. The system is an anger producing situation, one needs to express anger to get healthy. The mental health system is often a dam that holds back peoples anger. (See Kubler-Ross and Spaniol.) Class consciousness, what has happened to people like me. Advocacy for social change.
 * Recovery Section 2 Part 4 from virtualward on YouTube
 * People who have the name "the" as their middle name: Howie the Harp was one of the greatist advocates of the homeless, Kate the Great tells her story about London Psychiatric Hospital. Future is just more of the same, bottoming out the spark of recovery "I choose to live" no longer willing to allow others to control her life. Never hospitalised again. This video shifts from the American speaker to two other speakers abroad. The concept of recovery from Schizophrenia, two views that debate whether or not people recover from Schizophrenia. Research shows that between 45% and 60% do recover from Schizophrenia.
 * Recovery Section Part1 from virtualward on YouTube
 * Recovery Section Part1 from virtualward on YouTube
 * Recovery Section Part1 from virtualward on YouTube
 * Recovery Section Part1 from virtualward on YouTube
 * Recovery Section 4 Part1 from virtualward on YouTube
 * Recovery Section 4 Part2 from virtualward on YouTube
 * Recovery Section 4 Part3 from virtualward on YouTube
 * Recovery Section 4 Part4 from virtualward on YouTube
 * The views of Australians British and Americans on the need for recovery, the acceptance for the illness, a need for change for others, recovery can be slow, there are series of recoveries, not just one recovery, there are very many different forms of recovery. The need to recognise the person with the illness as much if not more than the symptoms of the illness.

Essay Questions on Recovery Lecture

 * Elizabeth Kubler-Ross developed the "Five Stages of Grief." In the video Recovery Section 2 Part 4 from virtualward on YouTube above the speaker Larry, tells of a womans recovery in the terms of the greiving process, not unlike the five stages of grief, these five stages are not linear. This is one model of the recovery process, do all recovery expeirinces conform to this paradigm?
 * 1) Are all persons with and with out diagnosed mental illness in recovery from some kind of problems, illness or issues?

Recovery Psychology as an applied science

 * see Mary Ellen Copeland WRAP
 * see Fred Frese Psychology in Psychiatry-Recovery Project This is at University of Ohio at Akron, Ohio.
 * see Helen Mayberg does research seeking out recovery as an outcome.
 * see Recovery Innovations of Arizona Recovery Education Center

In reflective summary on recovery

 * 1) Article on Pat Deegan's Web page
 * 2) Recovery is as much about the rights of persons with psychiatric conditions, as much as it is about anything else. Here is a suggested reading list
 * 3) In discussion on Cancer recovery one will find the concepts of hope, empowerment etc. being mentioned, terms like recovery, survivor also apply. See Cancer Treatment Centers of America and Compare feeling of hopelessness given to patient by doctors attitudes as in the story of Patricia Deegan intial response to diagnosis of mental illness
 * The Allegory of the Cave
 * 1) A Clinician says "The patient's driving behavior is in remission" not that "The individual has parked their vehicle in the appropriate parking space." Why do you think this is?

Research Methods in Psychology
Recovery psychology must challenge the proponents of the recovery movement, whom are primarily social workers not psychologists, to address recovery as a quantifiable and measurable behavior, phenomena, events or occurrence; as things that do actually happen. The claims about recovery are that, recovery is qualitative not quantitative. The fallacy here is that the experience of the psychological disorder and the features of diagnosis are quantified and measured empirically, not just qualitative, subjective or abstract according to the clinical sciences. In order to measure "recovery" as a thing that happens it should be measured using the same criteria, rules and logic that applied to establishing the fact that there is a disorder. Behavior is defined as anything that a living organism does. (Defining Human Behavior from Behavior Modification Raymond G. Miltenberger,2004) Behaviors have one or more dimensions that can be measured and quantified. These dimensions are frequency which is how often a behavior occurs, duration which is how long a behavior occurs, intensity which measures the amount of force put in to the behavior and latency which would be a measure of the respose time after stimulation. These dimensions are common to all behaviors are not limited to illness or disorder, according to psychology. According to the science of psychology this definition of behavior is used to determine abnormal or disordered behavior from normal or well ordered behavior. Behavior can be observed and measured. All behavior has an impact on the environment, including physical or social environment. All behavior follows the scientific laws of basic behavior principles. Lets re-evaluate that statement: People do recover from mental illness. Do is an action verb. Action implies behavior...yet those who push the concept of recovery, say it is qualititative and not quantiative. If we evaluate the majority of literature categorised under the heading of mental health recovery, we see a discussion of service provisions not recovery behavior. Recovery psychology would separate itself from positive psychology at this juncture; where positive psychology focuses on the "good things in life" and "happiness" recovery psychology studies the struggle or the process of getting there. Both are aimed at getting to mental wellness and away from illness. (Recovery...Das ding in a sinch) The opposite logical operation of the statement that recovery is qualitative would be that a psychological disorder is not quantitative. (in other words x-3=4 find the value of x if a person posessing no mathematical ability once so ever can figure the numer 7 they can either dismiss or validate this concept of recovery) What is studied in qualitative results is the service provision (i.e. psychiatric rehabilitation, recovery oriented services, recovery model, social work, evidence-based practices etc.) There seems to be confusion between recovery the person does and the work of the mental health staff being called recovery.

 * The Scientific Method
 * The Experimental Method
 * The Correlational Method
 * The Survey Method
 * The Case-Study Method
 * Single-Subject Design

What hinders recovery?

 * Anti-recovery?

Closing the gap

 * Patricia Deegan Humanistic Psychologist known in the "recovery community" or "recovery movement" has invented a course called the "Hearing Voices" training. In this training persons who do not hear voices (have auditory hallucinations) are asked to hear headphones and listen to tapes. On these tapes are recordings of people who hear "voices" speaking the sounds, noises and voices that they have heard. The purpose of this training is to teach or allow persons who do not hear voices understand what a person expeirinces while hearing voices. Humanistic Psychology is concerned with Human expeirinces; Patricia Deegans "Hearing Voices" training is concerned with teaching persons who have never had a "mental illness" expeirince what the expeirince is like.
 * 1) Does this have a Biological application? Can "non-mentally ill" persons who are simulating the expeirince of "hearing voices" have fMRI, PET and CT scans comparable to persons who naturally "hear voices?"
 * 2) Does this have an application for Cognitive psychology? Can mental processes be studied on a non-voice hearing person who simulates "hearing voices" be studied?
 * 3) What about Behavioristic studies on simulated "hearing voices" subjects versus naturally "hearing voices" subjects? How is the behavior similar and how is it different?
 * 4) First a question is asked in science...then a hypothesis is made, then the expeiriment is designed to test the hypothesis, then results are observed...but if one accepts the "recovery doctrine" hook-line-and-sinker, without asking questions, then recovery as a science will become stagnent. Humanism is fine. The "expeirince" is fine to discuss; but does not address "recovery" in all it's aspects. If nobody asks the question, there can be no progress. Prehaps this suggested research could yeild no significant discoveries; then again it could yeild the new discovery that proves the statement "recovery does not mean cured" to be wrong and a cliche of the past.
 * Building the Science of recovery?...hmmm, are they thinking? On yet another page ,qouting the Commission on Mental Health it says: Science has shown that having hope plays an integral role in an individual's recovery. It would logically follow that there needs to be more science, imagine if the science of physics would have stopped in the days of electronic typewriters, where would the internet be right now? Recovery is a doing action. Research on recovery seems to be the direction of the science.
 * Most of the talk about "Recovery" as a concept is Social work (Rehabilitation, service provision, health care intiative or other beuaracracy etc.) Which is like the work of a licensed professional industrial welder, who might know a thing or two about thermodynamics (Thermodynamics is the science of heat and things getting hot.) A officially recognized expert PhD in Thermodynamics is not a licensed welder and may know nothing about how to use a welding machine. A welder may not neccessarily even know half what a person studying    thermodynamics might know, in order to be a competent welder. This is how psychiatric rehabilitation (in  analogy welding) can be compared to recovery psychology (in  analogy thermodynamics) which studies a natural phenomena that is not dependent on human intervention, such as recovery (in  analogy  heat.)
 * It is the belief that psychology in studying psychological disorders, has spent far too much time and energy speaking about deviant, abnormal, clinical, psychopathology, deviant pathology, symptomology, disordered and the whole list of synonyms that mean mentally disturbed or disordered. The APA prints various journals all with corresponding names, for each one there is branch of psychology taught at colleges and universities, with of course textbooks which such titles. Meanwhile an executive order was signed in 2001 by the US president ordering for the an Education campaign about recovery from psychological disorders.  "Where do people get their educations from? Should not the National Campaign on Education be on college campuses?" So far SAMSHA and Department of Health and Human Services, along with many Universities are doing research and educational materials (Science to Services), which still do not directly address the ions transmitting across the synapses in person recovering from psychological disorder. see Neuroimaging see any textbook that carries information on  psychological disorder
 * The state of California has passed a law requiring all mental health professionals to recieve a minimum of 12 hours of training regarding the recovery model.

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Recovery psychology/Stigma, Discrimination and Prejudice

"Recovery is the process of overcoming the negative impact of a psychiatric disability despite its continued presence" --The Ohio Department of Mental Health Statistics on recovery
 * Depression    80%
 * Panic Disorder 70-90%
 * Schizophrenia 60%
 * Heart Disease 45-50%--NIMH 2002

Stigma, Discrimination and Prejudice

 * Stigma as a Barrier to Recovery: Adverse Effects of Perceived Stigma on Social Adaptation of Persons Diagnosed With Bipolar Affective Disorder
 * Presidential Radio Address June 5, 1999 on Mental Health
 * Social stigma is severe social disapproval of personal characteristics or beliefs that are against cultural norms. Social stigma often leads to marginalization.
 * Stigma Reduction
 * SAMSHA publications
 * Consumer Affairs E-Newsletter
 * National Mental Health Anti-Stigma Campaign
 * stigma
 * Diagnosis of Mental Illness - Conversation with Friends on YouTube
 * David Gonzales Stop The Stigma: Recovery is Real A.k.a. The Secret: Recovery is Real
 * Article on Identifying Mentalism
 * Article on Mentalism by Judi_Chamberlin
 * Brain Bondage Angela Vickers, JD
 * Psychomedia
 * A History of Psychomedia: The Early Years
 * MentalHealthStigma.com
 * PsychoMedia 2: Will the Real Psycho please stand up!
 * PsychoMedia: Laying the Foundation for Siberia USA
 * Jack Versus Psychomedia: Spoken word done poetic style
 * Interfacing with the Mentally ill - Police Training Video 01 Obsolete Stigmatizing Film
 * Interfacing with the Mentally ill - Police Training Video 02 Obsolete Stigmatizing Film

Internalized Stigma and Acceptance
Stigma becomes internalized by persons with psychological disorders. If a person is treated as incompetent, they begin to act as if they are incompetent. However, it has been found that when a person with a psychological disorder accepts their disorder, great strides in recovery soon occur (page 95 of Psychiatric Rehabilitation 2002 C. Pratt, K. Gill, N. Barrett, M. Roberts.)-see Kubler-Ross Two types of stigma exist in the mental health consumer community which fall under the concept of internalized stigma: Interstigma, which is where an individual stigmatizes oneself. Intrastigma in which a person with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder may stigmatize another person with schizophrenia or borderline personality disorder.

Externalized Stigma and Discrimination

 * mental health professionals Sally Saltel is a Washington, D.C. based psychiatrist, a lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine, who wrote the book PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine in which she equates recovery to liberalistic politics. By this line of thinking would that not make psychological disorders (mental illnesses) be a conservative phenomena?  Her book focuses on the anti-psychiatry movement, as if to say all of the recovery movement is anti-psychiatry. She attacks Dan Fisher and Pat Deegan and labels them as unrealistic anti-psychiatry zealots, although niether Fisher nor Deegan are anti-psychiatry, most of their literature confirms that they are pro-recovery (review any articles by these two.)  She attacks recovery as corrupting medicine. The position of the recovery model versus the medical model with regards to mental health services in its current state surely demonstrates that recovery as a concept barely is recognised in the medical setting...it certainly has not enough influence to corrupt anything medical.  As stated earlier in the course social workers are pushing the recovery concept not psychologists, psychiatrists and the medical establishment who should be qualified and ethically bound by the hippocratic oath to not only believe, accept but practice.  Failure to acknowledge recovery is similar to holocuast denial.Other recovery deniers are Stanton Peele and...
 * Media Images of Psychological disorders Characters with psychological disorders or characters with a history of psychological disorders have occured many times in the recycled plot lines of blood and gore movies. George Gerbner researched in 1993 for the National Stigma Clearinghouse and found that persons with psychological disorders are the most stigmatized group on television. Fictional characters with these disorders were seen as being more dangerous and evil than normal villians protrayed in theses programs and movies.  Of eight stereotyped categories of villians in movies and television media, when compared to hero characters: disabled persons accounted for less than 20/100, Latino-hispanic americans less than 20/100, Women less than 20/100, African American 21/100, White american 22/100, Young adults 30/100 but 120/100 persons with psychological disorders.  Gerbner found that 5% of "normal" characters are murderers (sic) and that 20% of characters who are "mentally ill" are killers.  While 40% of "normal" characters are violent (sic) another 70% of characters labeled "mentally ill" are violent.  Oddly enough by definition of antisocial would cover all criminal behavior, so by reason one could conclude that not all persons with psychological disorders are criminals, but that all persons who have criminal behavior definitely have psychological disorders.
 * The News Media The news media often refers to an armed and dangerous person who does a criminal act as "mentally disturbed." We can find any numerous references to criminals with psychological disorders and criminals with out psychological disorders.  In reality persons with psychological disorders rarely are violent and rarely do criminal acts.  By definition of abnormal behavior all criminal acts are abnormal.  It would be more precise to say that all criminals have psychological problems, and that there is a vast majority of others with psychological disorders who do not commit crime.  The news media consistantly prepetuates this public preception of there being a distinction between normal criminals and abnormal criminals. The news media is capable of speaking on health issues and giving accurate mental health information on a monday and then reporting an incident involving   a deranged psychopath on tuesday.  If we were to hold that media forum accountable to diagnostic criterion we would say that they are splitting, which is a pathological behavior seen in some personality disorders.  To even make this wrose an economist is allowed to speak in the news media regarding stocks, bonds and investments.  We naturally perceive a stockbroker or other financial expert authority to be an educated person; yet he says things like the stock market is in state of schizophrenia or that the national economy is schizophrenic.  Again this implies that the term schizophrenia means something it does not refer to.

Essay Question

 * As far back as Sally Zinman and Howie The Harp, consumers of mental health services have spoken up against the mental health care system, explain why those mental health health professionals who claim to be helping would refuse to listen those they were serving?
 * Recovery as a concept continues to see a great deal of resistance from the clinical psychologists and psychiatrists; yet it is the consumers or persons in recovery who have spoken out to explain the concept of "recovery," what is it that makes the concept so difficult to understand for persons who have gone in to the profession of treating disorders the very concept of an element being successful?
 * The above question refers to the success of mental health professionals; in the recovery movement, the focus of this success is on the consumer, client (person in recovery) since it is person centered. Can a clinical psychologist or a psychiatrist claim to be successful in doing their job, if their client is not ultimately successful as a result of therapuetic interventions?
 * Does the attitudes like those of Sally Satel harm not only the recovery movement, but the science of clinical psychology? Why is there an assumption or precieved belief that all recovery talk is politically correct or liberal, as pointed out in Sicko an illness does not care about a persons political presuasion so why would the recovery from it care either?  Should not illness and recovery from illness be seen as apolitical?

Focus on Controversy

 * An article(View this Link on CNN) about a student diagnosed with a psychological disorder that has a past of anger, hatred and desiring revenge, Richard Sonnen, who was alleged to have been making threats that he was going to pull off a  sniper attack from a clock tower on the college's campus. The accused  person said the whole incident was a big misunderstanding, that he was telling  people about his high school plot and never threatened his college or local high school. TIP: In seeking information on Richard Sonnen use Google, keywords like: Campus Rage, CNN and Richard Sonnen. There was little to no mention of Richard Sonnen, the guy in recovery, on venues like wikipedia or YouTube, where other persons who have acted violently, are discussed in excess.
 * 1) If Mr. Sonnen is telling the truth, has the media denied  Mr. Sonnens' recovery?
 * 2) If this is so, then have those who have stigmatized and accused him also denied his recovery?
 * 3) Does this further escalate stigma of psychological disorders?
 * 4) Should not research on the potential school shooters who never do shootings be done from a recovery prespective? Is the person who was angry at the world, was suicidal, felt  persecution, had on external sense of  locus of control and wanted revenge not considered a case of recovery, if recovered from that doomed state of mind? Would not it be worth the study time that (Harvard psychologist) William Pollack spends on  shooters  post-mortem, to study living people who did not hurt anyone? Is recovery not the thing to study, if the overall goal is prevention?
 * 5) Are clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, on campuses and in the media perpeptuating stigma by not supporting the recovery concept? Are they not supporting the body bag model instead of the recovery model, if they study post-mortem tragedy, and fail to study those who did not act violently?
 * 6) As a result of school shootings, some have proposed the idea, of letting students be armed to protect themselves on college campuses. What level of psychosocial stress do you think this might place on an already stigmatized and marginalized minority?  If you felt bullied by people who were not armed, would you feel any less bullied by the same people if they were armed with firearms?

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Total Internal Reflection

Total internal reflection is an optical phenomenon that occurs when a ray of light strikes a medium boundary at an angle larger than the critical angle with respect to the normal to the surface. If the refractive index is lower on the other side of the boundary no light can pass through, so effectively all of the light is reflected. The critical angle is the angle of incidence above which the total internal reflection occurs.

When light crosses a boundary between materials with different refractive indices, the light beam will be partially refracted at the boundary surface, and partially reflected. However, if the angle of incidence is greater (i.e. the ray is closer to being parallel to the boundary) than the critical angle — the angle of incidence at which light is refracted such that it travels along the boundary — then the light will stop crossing the boundary altogether and instead be totally reflected back internally. This can only occur where light travels from a medium with a higher refractive index to one with a lower refractive index. For example, it will occur when passing from glass to air, but not when passing from air to glass.

Total internal reflection can be demonstrated using a semi-circular glass block. A "ray box" shines a narrow beam of light (a "ray") onto the glass. The semi-circular shape ensures that a ray pointing towards the center of the flat face will hit the curved surface at a right angle, thus preventing refraction at the air/glass boundary of the curved surface. At the glass/air boundary of the flat surface, what happens will depend on the angle. Where θc is the critical angle:

 * If θ < θc, as with the red ray in the above figure, the ray will split. Some of the ray will reflect off the boundary, and some will refract as it passes through.
 * If θ > θc, as with the blue ray, all of the ray reflects from the boundary. None passes through.

Modes in Optical Fibers

Optical fiber can be used as a medium for telecommunication and networking because it is flexible and can be bundled as cables. It is especially advantageous for long-distance communications, because light propagates through the fiber with little attenuation compared to electrical cables. This allows long distances to be spanned with few repeaters. Additionally, the light signals propagating in the fiber can be modulated at rates as high as 40 Gb/s, and each fiber can carry many independent channels, each by a different wavelength of light (wavelength-division multiplexing). Over short distances, such as networking within a building, fiber saves space in cable ducts because a single fiber can carry much more data than a single electrical cable. Fiber is also immune to electrical interference, which prevents cross-talk between signals in different cables and pickup of environmental noise. Also, wiretapping is more difficult compared to electrical connections, and there are concentric dual core fibers that are said to be tap-proof. Because they are non-electrical, fiber cables can bridge very high electrical potential differences and can be used in environments where explosive fumes are present, without danger of ignition.

Number of Modes
The number of modes in an optical fiber distinguishes multi-mode optical fiber from single-mode optical fiber. To determine the number of modes in a step-index fiber, the V number needs to be determined: $$V = k_0  a  \sqrt{n_1^2 - n_2^2}$$ where $$k_0\;$$ is the wavenumber, $$a\;$$ is the fiber's core radius, and $$n_1\;$$ and $$n_2\;$$ are the refractive indices of the core and cladding, respectively. Fiber with a V-parameter of less than 2.405 only supports the fundamental mode (a hybrid mode), and is therefore a single-mode fiber whereas fiber with a higher V-parameter has multiple modes.

Decomposition of field distributions into modes is useful because a large number of field amplitudes readings can be simplified into a much smaller number of mode amplitudes. Because these modes change over time according to a simple set of rules, it is also possible to anticipate future behavior of the field distribution. These simplifications of complex field distributions ease the signal processing requirements of fiber-optic communication systems.

Drude Model
The Drude model of electrical conduction was developed in the 1900s by Paul Drude to explain the transport properties of electrons in materials (especially metals). The Drude model is the application of kinetic theory to electrons in a solid. It assumes that the material contains immobile positive ions and an "electron gas" of classical, non-interacting electrons of density n, each of whose motion is damped by a frictional force due to collisions of the electrons with the ions, characterized by a relaxation time τ.

Explanation
The Drude model assumes that an average charge carrier experiences a `drag-coefficient' $$\, \gamma$$. Under an applied electric field E this leads to the following differential equation:

 * $$m\frac{d}{d t}\langle\vec{v}\rangle = q\vec{E} - \gamma \langle\vec{v}\rangle,$$

where $$\langle\vec{v}\rangle$$ denotes average velocity, m the effective mass and q the charge of the charge carriers.

The steady state solution ($$\frac{d}{d t}\langle\vec{v}\rangle = 0$$) of this differential equation is

 * $$\langle\vec{v}\rangle = \frac{q \tau}{m}\vec{E} = \mu\vec{E},$$

where:

$$\, \tau = \frac{m}{\gamma}$$ is the mean free time of a charge carrier, and $$\,\mu$$ is the mobility]]. Now, introducing charge carrier density n (particles per unit volume), we can relate average velocity to current density:

 * $$\vec{J} = nq\langle\vec{v}\rangle.$$

The material can now be shown to satisfy Ohm's Law with a DC-conductivity $$\, \sigma_0$$.

 * $$\vec{J} = \frac{n q^2 \tau}{m} \vec{E} = \sigma_0\vec{E}$$

The Drude model can also predict the current as a response to a time-dependent electric field with an angular frequency $$\, \omega$$, in which case

 * $$\sigma(\omega) = \frac{\sigma_0}{1 + i\omega\tau}.$$

Here it is assumed that

 * $$E(t) = \Re(E_0 e^{i\omega t});$$
 * $$J(t) = \Re(\sigma(\omega) E_0 e^{i\omega t}).$$

In other conventions, $$\, i$$ is replaced by $$\, -i$$ in all equations. The imaginary part indicates that the current lags behind the electrical field, which happens because the electrons need roughly a time $$\, \tau$$ to accelerate in response to a change in the electrical field. Here the Drude model is applied to electrons; it can be applied both to electrons and holes; i.e., positive charge carriers in semiconductors.

Inadequacies of model
This simple classical model provides a very good explanation of DC and AC conductivity in metals, the Hall effect, and thermal conductivity (due to electrons) in metals, although it greatly overestimates the electronic heat capacities of metals. In reality, metals and insulators have roughly the same heat capacity at room temperature. Also, the Drude model fails to explain the existence of apparently positive charge carriers as demonstrated by the Hall effect.


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Recovery psychology/Psychosocial Rehabilitation

"I would say to anyone that recovery never just walks in the door. I worked hard at it for years."--Lori Holman from Next Year I'll Plant Tulips
 * Contemporary Educational Psychology Textbook
 * Strengths-Based Social Work Practice Textbook
 * Vocational Rehabilitation Textbook

Psychiatric Rehabilitation
The Health Dictionary defines psychosocial rehabilitation as therapeutic activities or interventions provided individually or in groups that may include: However, this definition misses the depth, diversity, and complexity of the philosophy and approach that is represented by PSR. Psychiatric Rehabilitation used to be known as Psychosocial Rehabilitation. The term "psychiatric rehabilitation" is often used interchangeably with PSR. However, psychiatric rehabilitation is more of a medical model, with a blending of the role of psychiatry and medications with more traditional psychosocial approaches. In psychiatric rehabilitation for example consider this case: The client is interested in becoming an astronaut, the practitioner would not scold the client or ridicule the client by telling the client that such a goal is unobtainable, instead the practitioner explores with the client what might be the motivation and interest in being an astronaut, and steps he would need to take to achieve this goal. The alternatives to this might be to refuse to discuss the issue with the client explaining that it was an impossible goal to accomplish or to discourage the person nicely, as you don’t want the client to become upset or to be set up for disappointment and failure. One of the core philosophical beliefs of psychiatric rehabilitation is it the client who decides what they want in their treatment, it is the client who sets their own goals. If a goal is going to be impossible or failure is going to occur it is not for the practitioner to decide. Clients with "high ambitions" do succeed. If not at one goal than with another that developed as a result of attempted one more idealistic.
 * development and maintenance of daily and community-living skills
 * self-care
 * skills training including grooming, bodily care, and feeding
 * social skills training, and
 * development of basic language skills

The study of psychiatric rehabilitation in relation to recovery psychology would be no different than the relationship between abnormal psychology or clinical psychology to psychiatry (psychiatric treatment.) The best resources for researching psychiatric rehabilitation are these three U.S. universities, although such schools do exist abroad as well. Any textbook on recovery psychology would address rehabilitation in the way a textbook from psychology of developmental disabilities would address habilitation. Note: Many psychology of developmental disabilities textbooks fail to recognize the neurodiversity, much the same way clinical psychology fails to recognize the recovery movement.
 * 1) Univeristy of Illinois Chicago
 * 2) Boston University
 * 3) University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey

Psychiatric rehabilitation and recovery fallacies of doctrine
In the study of psychiatric rehabilitation which facilitates this "recovery model" there is much discussion on the importance of Vocational Rehabilitation, that having a job improves the quality of life for a person with mental illness. The equation Strengths+Supports=Success is given in describing this need to assist persons with mental illness in getting jobs. Then in the same literature, there is the return to "overstated doctrine" which is called the recovery model, that recovery is not a destination.
 * 1) Strengths (innate abilities of the person with mental illness) plus Supports (Services and things which make functioning posible)equals success (the destination)
 * 2) Recovery does not mean a destination.
 * 3) Therefore Rehabilitation can not be about recovery.

Precursors to PSR
"In fact, their complaints have made them the significant factor in changing the system, say experts--and also in pointing up the failure of psychology to play a leadership role."--Patrick A. McGuire, New hope for people with schizophrenia APA Monitor
 * Milieu Therapy from Wikipedia
 * Integrative milieu model from Wikipedia
 * 1) Essay on Milieu therapy
 * Person-centered on Wikipedia
 * Clubhouse on Wikipedia,International Center for Clubhouse Development
 * Spotlight on a Clubhouse: VISIONS
 * Special Education and the connection to Rehabilitation
 * The Retreat
 * 1) Module MED1.1: Evidence-based Medicine on Wikiversity
 * 2) Lesson: Motivational Interviewing on Wikiversity

Rehabilitation: The facilitating of recovery

 * 1.Article on Wikipedia
 * 2.The International Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal
 * 3.Tom Craig PDF
 * 4.Wikibook on Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Recovery
 * 5.Wellness Recovery Action Plan, Copeland Center, More on WRAP
 * Mary Ellen Copeland Videos
 * 1M.E.Copeland part1
 * 2M.E.Copeland part2
 * 6. Peer Support on Wikipedia CPS, Peer Support on Wikipedia, Peer Support Training, Peer Article on PDF, National Empowerment Center on Peer Support
 * 7.Self-help Self-help, Self-help booksSelf-help organizations
 * 8.Evidence-Based Practices
 * 9. Supported Employment
 * 10. Employment services at the Village

Reasonable Accomodations
Reasonable Accomodations for persons with Psychiatric Disabilities

Historical context error
In most trainings since the 2001 President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health; there is a considerable ammount of discussion on "transforming the mental health care in to a recovery oriented mental health system" with no discussion of the "before" or "pre-recovery mental health system." Why is this recovery concept significant? What was the mental health system like prior to it being "recovery oriented?" Transforming from what?


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Recovery psychology/Biological Theory

 * Biochemistry Textbook
 * Introduction to Psychology Textbook
 * Biological Psychology Textbook
 * Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Textbook
 * Human Physiology Textbook
 * Consciousness Studies Textbook
 * Neuroscience Textbook
 * Neurology and Neurosurgery Textbook
 * Human Physiology Textbook
 * Psychology/Neuroscience Textbook
 * Pharmacology Textbook

Biological Perspective
Philosophical perspectives are important to understand in discussing the mind and the brain. Monism is the belief that mind and brain are only words and that there is no clear distinction between the two. Mentalism is the belief that everything is substance of the mind. Dualism is the belief that mind is an abstract or nontangible object that has some relationship to the brain, a biological organ. Paralellism is the belief that mind and brain work together somehow or share the same information. Emergent Property theory holds that the mind is a quality that emerges when matter is composed in way that produces the brain. Cognitive psychology deals with the mind, although it may be somewhat reductionist. Cognitive behavioral psychology addresses to some degree the interaction of mind and brain; at least in the context of emotions. Biological psychology and Behavioristic psychology tend to lean towards reductionism in their premises. Emergent Property theory however seems to gain more acceptance in humanistic psychology. Humanism holds that man is the measure of all things. The sentiment of humanism and the emergent identity could be summed as: "If these components of matter are composed in a certain way, and this constitutes living cells and these cells consitute a person, than I must be this person." "We would never doubt that the brain acts as a physico-chemical mechanism if treated as such; but for an understanding of psychic phenomenon we would start from the fact that the human mind enters as object and subject into the scientific process of psychology"-Werner Heisenber (1958)Physics and Philosophy:The revolution of modern science

 * Astonishing Functions of Human Brain and Miracles of Mind by Shriram Sharma Acharya
 * Neuroimaging on Wikipedia
 * 1) The Human Body
 * Mind-brain Dualism and the philosophy of mind
 * Can thoughts in the mind be related to chemistry in our brains?
 * Wikistudy guide on Biology (Neurology)
 * Neurons
 * Neurology
 * Brain Structure
 * Neuropsychiatry
 * Neuroscience
 * The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell
 * Introduction to Psychology WikiBook Read in Particular Chapter 3
 * Theory of Chemical Imbalance and the Biopsychiatry controversy
 * Biological Psychology Wikibook
 * Biological Psychological Disorders
 * 1) Brodmann’s Area 25 is an area of the brain researched by Helen Mayberg and others in the future we will be hearing more about this part of the brain, as we research "recovery" instead of "remission"

Treatment
Any clinical psychology textbook would discuss in great detail the many different types of interventions that are possible. However in the real mental health system these idealistic interventions are never used, often as a result of politicians cutting the mental health budget. This often reduces the mental health system down to a skeleton system of assessment and psychopharmacology; and if the client is lucky their personal needs can be addressed to an outside cognitive behavioral therapist or some rehabilitation program.
 * Assessment
 * Psychopharmacology

David Henley Videos It's a Brain Thing
Dr. David Henley gives an explanation of the biological concepts of mental disorders, he explains psychiatry and psychology. He explains somewhat that science is not a matter of belief, while explaining the overall contention of nueroscience, psychologist and psychiatrists.

Biploar Disorder

 * 1) It's a Brain Thing: Bipolar Disorder Part 1 of 6 by henleydb on YouTube
 * 2) It's a Brain Thing: Bipolar Disorder Part 2 of 6 by henleydb on YouTube
 * 3) It's a Brain Thing: Bipolar Disorder Part 3 of 6 by henleydb on YouTube
 * 4) It's a Brain Thing: Bipolar Disorder Part 4 of 6 by henleydb on YouTube
 * 5) It's a Brain Thing: Bipolar Disorder Part 5 of 6 by henleydb on YouTube
 * 6) It's a Brain Thing: Bipolar Disorder Part 6 of 6 by henleydb on YouTube

Panic Disorder

 * 1) It's a Brain Thing: Panic Disorder part 1 by henleydb on YouTube
 * 2) It's a Brain Thing: Panic Disorder part 2 by henleydb on YouTube
 * 3) It's a Brain Thing: Panic Disorder part 3 by henleydb on YouTube
 * 4) It's a Brain Thing: Panic Disorder part 4 by henleydb on YouTube
 * 5) It's a Brain Thing: Panic Disorder part 5 by henleydb on YouTube

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

 * 1) It's a Brain Thing: Generalized Anxiety Disorder part 1 by henleydb on YouTube
 * 2) It's a Brain Thing: Generalized Anxiety Disorder part 2 by henleydb on YouTube
 * 3) It's a Brain Thing: Generalized Anxiety Disorder part 3 by henleydb on YouTube

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

 * 1) It's a Brain Thing: OCD: part 1 by henleydb on YouTube
 * 2) It's a Brain Thing: OCD: part 2 by henleydb on YouTube
 * 3) It's a Brain Thing: Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder: part 3 by henleydb on YouTube

Social Phobias

 * 1) It's a Brain Thing Social Phobia: Part 1 by henlydb on YouTube
 * 2) It's a Brain Thing Social Phobia: Part 2 by henlydb on YouTube

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

 * 1) It's a Brain Thing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Part 1 by henleydb on YouTube
 * 2) It's a Brain Thing: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: part 2 by henleydb on YouTube
 * 3) It's a Brain Thing: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: part 3 by henleydb on YouTube

Personality Disorder

 * 1) It's a Brain Thing: Personality and its Disorders: part 1 by henleydb on YouTube
 * 2) It's a Brain Thing: Personality and its Disorders: part 2 by henleydb on YouTube
 * 3) It's a Brain Thing: Personality and its Disorders: part 3 by henleydb on YouTube
 * 4) It's a Brain Thing: Personality and its Disorders: part 4 by henleydb on YouTube

Depressive Subtypes

 * 1) It's a Brain Thing: Depressive subtypes: Part 2 by henleydb on YouTube

Psychotic Disorders

 * 1) It's a Brain Thing: Psychosis/ Psychotic disorders: part 1 by henleydb on YouTube
 * 2) It's a Brain Thing: Psychosis/ Psychotic disorders: part 2 by henleydb on YouTube

Addictions

 * 1) It's a Brain Thing: Addictions and the Brain Part 1 by henleydb on YouTube
 * 2) It's a Brain Thing: Addictions and the Brain Part 2 by henleydb on YouTube

Eating Disorders

 * 1) It's A Brain Thing: Eating Disorders Part I by henleydb on YouTube
 * 2) It's A Brain Thing: Eating Disorders Part II by henleydb on YouTube

Alzheimer's and other dementias

 * 1) It's a Brain Thing: Alzheimer's and other dementias part 1 by henleydb on YouTube
 * 2) It's a Brain Thing: Alzheimer's and other dementias part 2 henleydb on YouTube
 * 3) It's a Brain Thing: Alzheimer's and other dementias part 3 henleydb on YouTube
 * 4) It's a Brain Thing: Alzheimer's and other dementias part 4 henleydb on YouTube
 * 5) It's a Brain Thing: Alzheimer's and other dementias part 5 henleydb on YouTube
 * 6) It's a Brain Thing: Alzheimer's and other dementias part 5 henleydb on YouTube
 * 7) It's a Brain Thing: Alzheimer's and other dementias part 7 henleydb on YouTube
 * 8) It's a Brain Thing: Alzheimer's and other dementias part 8 henleydb on YouTube

Medication Issues

 * Video from YouTube Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal Jodie Fisher talks about her experiences getting off psychiatric drugs.
 * What You Should Know About Medicines Wikibook
 * Serotonin syndrome on Wikipedia
 * Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) on Wikipedia
 * Extrapyramidal syndrome on Wikipedia
 * Tardive dyskinesia on wikipedia
 * Adverse drug reaction A.k.a. "Side Effects" on Wikipedia
 * Paradoxical reaction on wikipedia

Medications: A possible tool of recovery or possible threat to recovery
See
 * Psychopharmacology
 * Psychoactive drug
 * Psycholeptic
 * Psychiatric medication
 * Stimulants
 * Mood stabilizers
 * Anticonvulsants
 * Anticholinergic
 * Anxiolytic
 * Hypnotic
 * Sedative
 * Antipsychotic
 * Typical antipsychotic
 * Atypical antipsychotics
 * Thioxanthene
 * Antidepressants
 * Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRIs)
 * Serotonin-Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitor(SNRIs)
 * Noradrenergic and Specific Serotonergic Antidepressant(NASSAs)
 * Norepinephrine (noradrenaline) reuptake inhibitors (NRIs)
 * Norepinephrine-dopamine reuptake inhibitors
 * Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
 * Monoamine oxidase inhibitor(MAO Inhibitor)
 * Augmenter drugs
 * Psychoanaleptic
 * Psychostimulant
 * Nootropic
 * List of psychiatric medications by condition treated
 * List of psychiatric medications

Lack of research

 * If a psychological disorder looks like this or that in a |fMRI, MRI,  PET,  CAT or other  brain imaging equipment, then should not recovery look like something?
 * What does a PET scan of recovery from depression look like? What is the biochemistry of recovery from psychological disorders look like at the nueral  synapses? What does the  blood flow of cerebreal regions look like in the  fMRI of a person who has a new found sense of hope and new role identification as a result of their recovery from mental illness? Has anyone ever got a  CAT scan after they recieved help for psychosis? What does recovery look like through a microscope?

ESSAY QUESTIONS

 * 1) Explain the difference between mind and brain
 * 2) Explain the relationship between thoughts and behaviors

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Discussion
Hello, just wanted to acknowledge this interesting and well-conceived project. I expect to learn quite a bit just by continuing to read your work. Thank you for putting this together Wikidgood (discuss • contribs) 21:27, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

I am not going to touch your work but I would find it easier to read if the first paragraph was broken up it is a bit long. Also, the first part of the paragraph comes across more clearly, I am lost down in the lower part must reread to follow the argument. A final point is that the critique of psychology without a recovery component seems to be more developed it is not that clear what the critique of the recovery movement is. I would suspect that the recovery movement is not sufficiently informed by the science of clinical psychology, which is a solid maybe even a profound insight. Wikidgood (discuss • contribs) 21:32, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

 * The content was created 11 years ago and the primary author hasn't been active for a decade. Be bold. If you have a vision to improve the resource, make it better. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 15:44, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

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This page discusses how a mind of an individual with or without a mental illness is influenced socially to believe things about others.--Recovery Psychology 05:53, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

comments on tone
A couple of comments on this quote: "It would appear from the literature and from the experiences of consumers of mental health services that those high and mighty educated experts have forgotten most of the content of their previous education."

 * 1) If the literature supports this statement, you should have no trouble citing sources to back it up.
 * 2) The tone of "high and mighty educated experts" seems inconsistent with the statement on the main page of this project that "This is an academic pursuit..."  You should be able to convince the reader of the soundness of your argument through logical reasoning and evidence, rather than using an Appeal to emotion.  The use of this wording is a bit ironic given that the same paragraph criticizes "mental health professionals in the past" for using "a common fallacy in logic".

It is fine to approach a topic with a particular point of view, or even to mix social activism into the research. But If you hope to see this project taken seriously as an academic pursuit, you need to realize that you will receive greater consideration if there is more emphasis on presenting a logical argument based on evidence. --mikeu talk 17:53, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

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Talk:Recovery psychology/Psychological

Fred Freese is a professor of Psychology in Psychiatry: Recovery Project in Akron, Ohio. We might need to research or google this "Psychology in Psychiatry" to get more information on it.--Recovery Psychology 14:00, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

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Talk:Recovery psychology/Lesson3

This page is for discussing what the recovery movement is.--Recovery Psychology 05:56, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Rehabilitation and Recovery
Recovery Innovations has an education program which starts consumers out as clients getting counseling services, and as the counseling progresses the clients move through an expeirince which is recovery, transforming their identities from "mental health service reciepiants" in to fully integrated college students with Associate Degree's in a subject regarded as "Recovery." This qualifies the graduate for employment in mental health services, but also opens the doorway for upper level education. The service itself is a therapuetic rehabilitation service, it allows the person recieving the service to learn through their own recovery. All of these processes and expeirinces that these persons learn through is a first hand account of "recovery" and there is a psychological process to this recovery. Recovery psychology only requires charting the progress of students to constitute a "recovery psychology" See META --Recovery Psychology 03:01, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

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Interesting. Emesee 08:58, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2:10-2:39 :-) Yes, people tend to label others pretty fast. Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 12:06, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

I edited the "confusing" section I hope that clears it up, please tell me if it didn't and thank you for your input.--recovery psychologist 12:58, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

 * I think that helped some thanks. Are you trying to say that recovery psychology does acknowledge the concepts, movements, and groups or are you suggesting that recovery psychology should like it does antipsychiatry and propsychiatry views? I'm also having trouble following what is said because it seems like each sentence isn't building on the previous sentence or like the connection is missing. Like what does the two classification in abnormal psychology and Developmental Disability Psychology courses have to do with the separation of mental illness from developmental disorders, or what does that have to do with Developmental Disability Psychology and Clinical Psychology failure to acknowledge or mention things? These things don't seem to flow naturally into each other or into the thoughts/statements about recovery psychology and Neurodiversity. I hope I've provided enough information to help you understand what I mean. Please feel free to ask for clarification if I haven't been. --dark[[Image:Yin yang.svg|12px]]lama 21:46, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

I guess I will have some rewording to do, to clarify this. I am trying to say that in the way that Clinical Psychology does not acknowledge "recovery" DD psychology does not give mention to the nuerodiversity concepts, which are similar to recovery concepts in some degrees or some ways. The major crux of this idea "recovery psychology" flows from this: academic disciplines or courses of study are some way related to social sciences (or behavior sciences.) If a person graduates in school majoring in psychology, they may become a psychologist. They may specialize in clinical psychology, which deals with mental disorders. There is some relation between education and the work profession. So when the U.S. Presidents Commission on Mental Health says that people with mental disorders do recover from mental disorders, that there needs to be national education campaign, and that the mental health profession needs to be a "recovery" oriented profession. Then the head of the American Psychological Association says psychology is "uniquely qualified" to lead the shift toward "recovery" but clinical psychology (academic and scientific)still focuses on what is pathological or what is remission from disorder (as opposed to recovery from a disorder), so basically I am trying to ask is "recovery" just a buzz word or is it a real psychological phenomena? If it is a real thing, then logically there are errors about it if it is not researched scientifically. I researched to learn this "recovery model" as it is called, I kept running in to the statement "recovery is a process." I ask then what is that process. Which leads me back to psychology: the study of mental processes. If recovery from mental disorder is a process, should not the science of mental processes that specializes in disorders focus on this process. Neurodiversity would be similar to anti-psychiatry (the historical foundation philosophically of recovery) in that it does not feel there is anything wrong with the mental processes of certain people just becuase they have labels. I am a DD specialist (psychology program certified) and a CPRP (rehabilitation and recovery professional certfied) in studying for these two and also continuing clinical psychology, I see the wide gap between these concepts, (worlds apart) one that should not be...if all academic disciplines were truly objective in their prespective, it is not uncommon for clinical psychology courses to spend a little bit of time discussing anti-psychiatry, so if would be good for time to discuss recovery (pro-psychiatry), recovery (antipsych), recovery (process or behavior) and nuerodiversity (concept)...So if that helps you understand what I am trying to say, then I'll gladly appreciate your input. I'll look at it and try to better word it.--recovery psychologist 03:13, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

 * I've taken another jab at it. Have I managed to capture what your trying to convey, or have I misunderstood? I think I understand a little more now how A (clinical psychology) and B (developmental disability) relate to C (recovery psychology). I understood that Clinical Psychology does not acknowledge recovery and that Development Disability Psychology doesn't recognize neurodiversity concepts. Are you saying that Recovery Psychology does acknowledge these things and are you trying to explain how Recovery Psychology acknowledges these concepts? Are you trying to explain how Development Disability Psychology could be improved to deal with neurodiversity concepts? Are you also trying to explain how Clinical Psychology and Development Disability Psychology can be improved through what Recovery Psychology does? If I haven't misunderstood you and the answers are yes, I guess the next step would probably be to clarify the clinical psychology and development disability psychology problems that are the focus of the Neurodiversity section, and how Recovery Psychology can help with that. I hope my last attempt at it has helped, and I would be willing to try to clarify the problems that are of focus and how Recovery Psychology can help, if I knew the answers to that. --dark[[Image:Yin yang.svg|12px]]lama 20:02, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes, that would be correct! I will have to think on how that can be explained. I feel you may have given the words I need to say exactly what I am trying to say in the section. It is how we think of issues and how we connect the dots and the attitude we have about those connections that leads to innovations.recovery psychologist 13:06, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

I think that recovery psychology would be helpful in the perspective of saying lets not look at what "abnormal" or "mentally ill" people do that is considered disordered and trying to stop the abnormality; but to focus on what "normal" and "mentally healthy" things they are not doing; and can we help them learn or try to do these things that they may wish to be doing...much like positive psychology is a psychology of being "positive" or "happy" but adapted for and discussing the "reality" of psychological disorders. Positive Psychology, although I have not done an in-depth study of it, does not seem to acknowledge the reality of the disorder. If the person is without problems, they may not need any kind of psychology in their life at all. If there is no problem...there can be no solution, which is my only critique on positive psychologyrecovery psychologist 07:01, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

The Context of Recovery Psychology
OUTLINE FOR RECOVERY PSYCHOLOGY AS THE STUDY OF RECOVERY PHENOMENA Maybe some this is redundant, but these are the major points that I feel recovery psychology would cover as a subject.
 * 1) Abnormal psychology is a research based discipline.
 * 2) Clinical psychology is an application based discipline.
 * 3) Remission from symptoms of a psychological disorder is unlike recovery from symptoms of a psychological disorder (Judi Chamberlin)
 * 4) Abnormal and Clinical psychology are philosophically based on remission (Nees)
 * 5) Recovery psychology would be a new category of research in to already used applications such as WRAP (but not as it used in Phoenix at clinics, that would be a poor example of recovery)

OUTLINE FOR PSYCHOSOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF A RECOVERY PSYCHOLOGY
 * 1) Normal is defined by the majority; abnormal is a quality of a minority defined by the majority (Psychology 101)
 * 2) Abnormality can be an asset, not just a dysfunction or disorder. (see below)
 * 3) Stigma, discrimination and prejudice can do more harm than psychological disorder in most cases.
 * 4) Side effects from medications can also be classified as psychiatrically induced mental illness.
 * 5) David Rosenhan and the Pseudo-patient Experiment “On being sane in insane places”
 * Psychiatric staff could not identify “normies” from persons with mental illness
 * Persons with mental illness identified the “normies” quite easily
 * Rosenhan was never “undiagnosed” from having schizophrenia but was said to be in “remission”
 * When Rosenhan was challenged by psychiatrists he lied and sent no “pseudo-patients” to the hospital. The doctors released all the hospitals patients to flush out the “FAKES”
 * Persons who truly have mental illness have a keener awareness of what is “normal” than the so-called normal person does.
 * 1) Other famous psychological sociological experiments (Social Psychology)
 * Philip Zimbardo The Stanford Prison Experiment-How a persons role in society determines behavior and cognition
 * Stanley Milgram The Electroshock Teacher “Obedience to Authority Experiment”-How far will people go to conform to an assigned role
 * Jane Elliot-The Eye of the Storm-Experiment on prejudice based on blue eyes and brown eyes, demonstrating that any trait a person has can be exploited to be the dominant group and the subordinate group
 * Solomon Asch-How the group consciousness influences the individuals ability to think for themselves
 * Psychosocial Rehabilitation (Psychiatric Rehabilitation) claims to be the “recovery” model; the premise that changing a persons social environment or status brings about recovery

 * 1) Identity Politics
 * C/S/X movement Consumers, psychiatric survivors, ex-patients
 * Recipients and non-survivors (the anti-recovery movement)
 * Neurodiversity-this is to Developmental Disability what Recovery is Mental Health
 * Family Advocacy
 * In researching I have found that the word “recovery psychology” as a derogatory slur used by sociologists and other academics to refer to what may appear to be a thorn in their side-references to identity politics such as gay rights and black rights (CSX?)

OUT LINE OF RECOVERY PSYCHOLOGY AS A SCIENCE OF THE LIVING
 * 1) Dead guys name Freud are boring to psychology students
 * 2) The living psychologists who have recovered from mental illness, who names could fill the pages of a psychology textbook
 * Dr. Frederick Freese PhD Schizophrenia
 * Dr Ronald Bassman Schizophrenia
 * Dr Daniel B Fisher Schizophrenia
 * Dr Patricia Deegan PhD Schizophrenia
 * Mary Ellen Copeland MSW Bipolar
 * David Oaks Schizophrenia
 * Laurie Berkshire Depression
 * Patricia Ridgeway
 * Priscilla Schiffler
 * Courtney Harding
 * Judi Chamberlin
 * Larry Frisk
 * The list goes on with a little bit of research and they have different theories on recovery like comparing Freud to Skinner to Maslow
 * 1) What C/S/X general consensus doctrine of recovery states (the common crap that everybody says that makes us sick: “recovery is a process…blah, blah, blah”)#What the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health says recovery is
 * 2) What psychiatric survivors (anti-psychiatry) says recovery is
 * 3) What family advocacy says recovery is (people like NAMI)
 * 4) What Psychiatric rehabilitation says recovery is
 * 5) What the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry says recovery is
 * 6) What 12 Step groups say recovery is
 * 7) The psychological definition of recovery (proposed by this author)
 * Positive symptoms (associated with Schizophrenia) are present in all psychological disorders
 * Negative symptoms (associated with Schizophrenia) are present in all psychological disorders
 * Positive symptoms are abnormal features
 * Negative symptoms are the lack of normal features
 * Remission is to positive symptoms what recovery is to negative symptoms or in other words remission is to cease abnormal behavior as recovery is to begin new and different behaviors
 * What is Positive Psychology and how much of recovery is Positive Psychology (cognitive-behavioral psychology) See Martin Seligman
 * Psychonueroimmunology-Norman Cousins
 * 1) Motivational Interviewing

OUTLINE OF THE CLINICAL ASPECTS OF RECOVERY PSYCHOLOGY
 * 1) Clinical psychology descriptions of mental disorders
 * 2) Benefits if any of having a disorder (Robin Williams is bipolar, most artists, musicians, celebrities, famous people have a disorder) How being “abnormal” can be a good thing
 * 3) Reality of the disorder…the real bad parts of mental disorder, how abnormal can be a bad thing (we must not deny this just because we are talking about recovery) things like this author being a total scatterbrain and working on this “recovery psychology” idea for more than five years and not finishing it
 * 4) Role recovery, symptomatic recovery and functional recovery Patricia Schifflers model of recovery
 * 5) The Frisk-Kubler-Ross model of Recovery: Denial, Depression, Anger, Acceptance, Bargaining according to Larry Frisk Kubler-Ross on death and dying or grieving…all mentally ill persons are grieving
 * 6) What is mental illness again? The trauma theory of mental illness or the stress-vulnerability coping model (compares all disorders to a form of PTSD)
 * 7) To be scientifically valid author must be objective or agnostic and not write as a believer in the “recovery” concept but write about it as a possibility to be researched
 * 8) Empowerment versus Entitlement (opposite concepts in the real world, not Phoenix or Maricopa County)
 * 9) When a person is truly in “recovery” it is drastic difference not a baby step, it is like eating out of trash in a ghetto to dining at the most expensive restaurant in the richest part of town

OUTLINE OF THINGS SADLY MISTAKEN FOR RECOVERY WHICH ARE NOT RECOVERY (particularly in Maricopa County) recovery psychologist 06:51, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) Not having free will (brainwashed)
 * 2) Not being an individual (mommy and daddy in control, or RIAZ in control)
 * 3) Not being independent (see above)
 * 4) Entitlement instead of empowerment
 * 5) Being a “recipient” instead of a consumer
 * 6) Not having rights
 * 7) Not having freedom
 * 8) Not functioning like a person
 * 9) Not having a role other than client or patient
 * 10) Symptoms are in control of a person instead of person in control of symptoms
 * 11) Not having an idea of one’s own identifiable “norms” (as mentioned above mentally ill people can identify what is normal faster than “normal” people can)
 * 12) Problem focus not solution focus
 * 13) Not being responsible for one’s own actions (Mental Health Justice Court)
 * 14) Not wanting to be in recovery or not wanting recovery (being a recipient)
 * 15) Obsessing and focusing on Nouns “People, Places and Things” (Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book Bill Wilson 1933) instead of focusing on Verbs (or actions)
 * 16) Reactive instead of Proactive life
 * 17) Unconsciously committing self euthanasia by being a medication seeker
 * 18) Trans-institutionalization or Para-institutionalization (Laura Slater 2004) or Clinicality (This author 2007) anything that resembles living just for the mental health system like rat in a cage
 * 19) Progress as defined as a nominal billing code or clinical documentation instead of progress defined as an X and Y axis and showing measurable improvement
 * 20) A bunch of loosely defined rhetoric that contradicts itself (recovery is not destination, it is a process…but what is the process? Sounds like pseudoscience to me, supports+strengths=success…”Success and “destination” are synonyms not antonyms…any retarded third grader in Special Education such as this author can tell you that!

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On this page we get back to social forces that impact the human mind of a person with mental illness--Recovery Psychology 05:57, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Quote?
Somewhere I came across a Martin Luther King JR quote I want to check the accuracy on, did MLK say "Mental Illness is a euphemism for political activism and our spiritual salvation" is so I need the correct wording, very powerful if there is any truth to it.--Recovery Psychology 02:29, 27 March 2008 (UTC)


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This is discussion on PSR and what it is, as well as what it is not.--Recovery Psychology 05:58, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

PEER SUPPORT in 430 B.C.
I read in Plato's Republic where Socrates argued that a healthy, robust or healthy physician lacked the true nature of compassion, and in his arguement he hypothetically suggests the idea that good health care is a physician being maimed to place him in the position equal to a person with ailments. I need to re-read the Republic in order to give a proper citation.--Recovery Psychology 00:10, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Authentic "recovery"
Perhaps I am misinterpreting the definition of recovery presented here. However, it seems if someone is "disabled" due to mental illness, and cannot work due to the what is being labeled as "disability", then if they are able to "recover", then almost by definition they should be able to hold a job.

Again, perhaps I am misinterpreting what it means to "recover". It could certainly be used in other different contexts. Or it could simply be used as a matter of speaking of different degrees of "recovery".

That's a very good question, recently I heard at a seminar for mental health workers where Strengths+Skills=Success in speaking of vocational rehabilitation for persons with mental illness and this was headed under the "recovery model" and the lecturers used logic such as "recovery is a process" and "recovery is not a destination" in the same seminar. So that is to say that Success is an antonym to the word Destination. I have been seeking information on this "process of recovery" and the closest I have found to it; is that recovery is not a process that mental illness is actually the process The Kubler-Ross process and recovery is a form of destination.--recovery psychologist 00:35, 26 May 2009 (UTC)


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Now we move in to the biological theory on the brain.--Recovery Psychology 06:00, 12 January 2008 (UTC)


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 * South African Curriculum Consumer Studies Textbook
 * Introduction to Moral Reasoning Textbook

The problem

 * History of Mental Health on Wikipedia
 * Comfortably Numb by Charles Barber on npr
 * Lessons Learned About the Chronic Mentally Ill Since 1955 by John A. Talbott

Lawrence Kohlberg's Theory on the developmental phases of ethics and how this relates to the evolution of the mental health system
Lawrence Kohlberg developed the concept of the stages of moral development moral development where he describes a human beings mental capacities for moral reasoning and establishment of ethical values through stages of progressing growth. The view in the recovery movement is that society as well as the mental health system is not unlike a child maturing to an awakening of adult responsibility.

 * Preconventional Morality
 * Stage 1-Punishment and Obedience Orientation (Might makes right orientation)
 * Stage 2-Instrumental purpose and exchange
 * Conventional Morality
 * Stage 3-Approval of Others
 * Stage 4 Social System and Conscience
 * Post-Conventional Morality
 * Stage 5 Morality of Contract, individual rights and democratically accepted law
 * Stage 6 Universal Principles

Essay Question: Where would you place the practitioners of mental health throughout history if you were to apply them to Kohlberg's theory of Moral Development?: 1. 500 years ago 2. Moral therapy era 3. 200 years ago 4. Sixty years ago 5.at the dawn of the deinstutionalization movement 6. Now

The Recovery Movement and Transformation of the mental health system
The establishment of Fountain House in the 1940's seeded the development of the recovery concept and is considered by some to be the birthplace for the recovery movement. Many psychosocial rehabilitation centers, services and programs followed, many of which were founded by ex-patients. They were formed with the common purpose of improving the quality of life for individuals with mental illness. The consumer movement was fueled by righteous anger (that is, anger not associated with shame.) Beginning in the late 1950's with the invention of psychotropic medications, large numbers of persons were discharged from state psychiatric institutions. Many former patients were forced to fend for themselves on the street with virtually no support. This spurred the funding and development of community mental health centers (CMHC’s), and the development of services for this deinstitutionalized population.

Clinicality
Clinicality may be referred to transinstitutionalization, which may be the result of the "Broken Promise" of deinstutionalization movement. This instutitionalized behavior or learned helplessness of clients in the mental health system the direct result of not having person centered values and being recovery oriented. Clinicality can be the life of living only to see the doctor, visit the Community Mental Health Clinic for the monthly, weekly or daily visit, signing papers without any true understanding of what is be signed or why to appease clinical staff, recieving Social security Disability and referring to it as "my check" as the primary event in one's life. Clinicality is both the behavior of the clinician towards the client and the behavior of the client who is institutionalized in to clinicality. Clinical psychology causes this to occur by the very nature of its approach toward persons with psychological disorders.

Disability versus Quality of Life
QALY=Quality Adjusted Life Years DALY=Disability Adjusted Life Year Study from the World Health Organization finds that the Medical model has increased DALY's while PSR is about establishing QALYs

Also See the following

 * Regarding Kohlberg
 * |Moral Development and Moral Education: An Overview
 * |Kohlberg's Moral Stages
 * Kolberg's Stages of Moral Development
 * PDF about righteous anger in activism and recovery
 * Identifying Dimensions of Empowerment in Consumers of Psychiatric Services Article abstract mentions Righteous Anger
 * Leroy Spaniel and Anthony Zipple in 1994 introduced a concept acknowledging family recovery which often parallels the concept of recovery from psychological disorders. Spaniol & Zipple identified four essential stages of family recovery. Compare these four concepts to the six stages of Kohlberg's Moral Development or Kübler-Ross's stages of grievence.
 * Second part of the Surgeon Generals Report
 * Ruth o. Ralph Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service University of Southern Maine Article on Recovery
 * Pride and self contempt
 * Patricia Deegan "What will endure" Watch it, listen to it, think about it, If you ever get the chance. She is very reflective, and she asks many rhetorical questions that stimulate "Righteous Anger in moral context on the ethics of mental health"
 * As in the overall concept of recovery Abraham Maslows' hierarchy of needs, has the stage of Self-actualization at the apex of the pyramid, this can apply to all involved in recovery and comparable to these (above expressed ideas.)
 * Reviewing theJudi Chamberlin article on where the recovery movement stands now we can see that it now has influenced the mental health system.

REFLECTION ESSAY

 * After reading about Kubler-Ross's greiving theory, Spaniol & Zipple's family recovery concept, Kohlberg's moral development, and Maslow's heirarchy of needs; can you reflect any personal values that you may have? (Subjective)
 * Deinstitutionalization was influenced by antipsychiatry, mental health liberation, disability rights, civil rights and the development of new pharmacological drugs, after the 1999 Surgeon Generals Report and the 2001 Report of the Presidents Commission on Mental Health and the CATIE study on newer medication, this being the culmanation of the consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement and the psychiatric survivor movement and the psychiatric rehabilitation profession heralding it as the recovery movement. How does society and opposing prespectives influence the moral development of the scientific and professional communities?

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Psychiatry has done some very immoral things in the past, a good testament to this is called "WHAT WILL ENDURE" BY PAT DEEGAN--Recovery Psychology 07:22, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

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