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...

Self-Reflections on Self-Determination in Harm Reduction

• By: Eugene Aronowitz, PhD, LMSW Management Consultant
• April 1st, 2018
• addiction services, client autonomy, harm reduction, public health approach, risk reduction, self-determination, social work practice, treatment coercion
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When I was a social work student in the early 1960s, I assumed that it was imperative, even obligatory, that I respect the right of client self-determination, but I certainly didn’t know how to put self-determination into practice. I was placed at Henry Street Settlement and worked with two...