Serious Mental Illness Recovery: The Basics

• By: Larry Davidson, PhD Katherine Ponte, BA, JD, MBA, CPRP Yale School of Medicine Program for Recovery and Community Health
• October 4th, 2021
• Fall 2021 Issue, hope, mental health, peer support, person-centered care, recovery, self-determination, serious mental illness, stigma
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When managing serious mental illness (SMI), the recovery journey can be long and challenging. It often requires creative and prolonged efforts to build and maintain a full life, but many people do reach recovery. In fact, up to 65% of people living with SMI experience partial to full recovery...

Recovery-Oriented Practice and Health Care Reform

• By: Larry Davidson, PhD Yale School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry
• April 1st, 2013
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One common criticism of the concept of recovery is that, while it has offered a hopeful—even inspiring—vision for persons with mental illnesses and their loved ones, it has not provided concrete guidance for how mental health care needs to change in order to be more effective in promoting it....