The Recovery Model and Other Rehabilitative Approaches
摘要
The recovery movement is very ambitious. It seeks to take us beyond treating illness, to focusing on helping people have better lives, and regain important roles and acceptance within their communities…even for people whose symptoms can’t always be eliminated or controlled and even for people with very serious persistent conditions like schizophrenia. While the mainstream of psychiatry seeks ever more successful illness treatments, the “outsider” recovery movement seeks ever more successful ways of promoting better lives. This chapter will focus on several intertwined levels: