Recovery from severe mental illness

Harnessing primary care to enhance recovery from severe mental illness.

Therapeutic homework to support recovery from severe mental illness.

Therapeutic homework refers to activities that clients complete between their visits with mental health workers. The aim of such homework is to facilitate progress toward h'eatment goals. There is an increasing body of research indicating that homework completion is associated with improved outcomes of psychotherapy across a wide range of clinical disorders (such as depression and anxiety). How...

Parenthood and severe mental illness

Objective: Parenting is an important life domain for many people, but little research examines the parenting experience and its role in recovery for those with a severe mental illness (SMI). The current study provides preliminary evidence of how these concepts are related in a sample of individuals living with severe mental illness attending a community mental health center. We also explored po...

Severe mental illness across cultures.

OBJECTIVE International studies have shown that the outcome of illnesses like schizophrenia vary across cultures. The good outcome in developing countries depends upon a number of factors. METHOD Using both primary and secondary sources, existing literature was reviewed. Using terms severe mental illness, culture and schizophrenia, Medline, Psychinfo and Embase were searched. Further searches...

Recovery from versus recovery in serious mental illness: One strategy for lessening confusion plaguing recovery

Background: There is an increasing global commitment to recovery as the expectation for people with mental illness. There remains, however, little consensus on what recovery means in relation to mental illness. Aims: To contribute to current efforts to tease apart the various aspects of recovery appearing in the psychiatric literature by describing two conceptualizations of recovery from and re...