Partnering for Recovery in Mental Health (PDF)

Partnering for Recovery in Mental Health is a practical
guide for conducting person and family-centered recovery planning
with individuals with serious mental illnesses and their families.
It is derived from the authors' extensive experience in
articulating and implementing recovery-oriented practice and has
been tested with roughly 3,000 providers who work in the field as
well as with numerous post-graduate trainees in psychology, social
work, nursing, and psychiatric rehabilitation. It has consistently
received highly favorable evaluations from health care
professionals as well as people in recovery from mental
illness.

This guide represents a new clinical approach to the planning and
delivery of mental health care. It emerges from the mental health
recovery movement, and has been developed in the process of the
efforts to transform systems of care at the local, regional, and
national levels to a recovery orientation. It will be an extremely
useful tool for planning care within the context of current health
care reform efforts and increasingly useful in the future, as
systems of care become more person-centered. Consistent with other
patient-centered care planning approaches, this book adapts this
process specifically to meet the needs of persons with serious
mental illnesses and their families.

Partnering for Recovery in Mental Health is an invaluable
guide for any person involved directly or indirectly in the
provision, monitoring, evaluation, or use of community-based mental
health care.