Posted by SLS on January 15, 2015, at 0:19:27
In reply to Re: the recovery model, posted by baseball55 on January 14, 2015, at 20:08:01
> What is the recovery model?
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> > Probably should be in the psychology area, but...well...I dunno...
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> > ...this is the model community/public mental health clinics in my area operate on. I did some Google-ing, and even the state mental hospital runs on this model, which is encouraging (in large part because I almost ended up there). Then again, most of the state mental hospital was sold off in a fit of Condo Fever, sooo...
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> > ...anyway, anyone else have experience w/ the recovery model? What do you think? What's the alternative? The Thorazine Shuffle model?I don't know about recovery models per sé. However, I do draw a distinction between treatment response and recovery.
I think that a response to biological therapies of a chronic mental illness is but one step in the recovery process. Often, psychosocial stress can precipitate or drive a biological pathology. This might need to be addressed through psychotherapy in order to prevent relapse or even allow the treatment to work at all. Even if there were no psychosocial stress before the onset of illness, the illness itself can leave psychological damage in its wake. One must learn to function independently and socially after so long a time spent isolating or in a psychotic state. Recovery from mental illness can be accomplished using a multimodal approach, which might include individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, exercise, behavioral desensitization, occupational therapy, etc.
Anyway, that's what I think of when I consider the treatment of the whole person, and not just the brain disorder.
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I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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