- ISBN: 9780470711422 | 0470711426
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/13/2011
This book offers a succinct model of recovery from serious mental illness, synthesizing stories of lived experience to provide a framework for clinical work and research in the field of recovery. & & Places the process of recovery within the context of normal human growth and development & & Compares and contrasts concepts of recovery from mental illness with the literature on grief, loss and trauma & & Situates recovery within the growing field of positive psychology & focusing on the active, hopeful process & & Describes a consumer-oriented, stage-based model of psychological recovery which is unique in its focus on intrapersonal processes