Abstract
Several instruments have been developed by clinicians and academics to assess clinical recovery. Based on their life narratives, measurement tools have also been developed and validated through participatory research programs by persons living with mental health problems or illnesses to assess personal recovery. The main objective of this project is to explore possible correlations between clinical recovery, personal recovery, and citizenship by using patient-reported outcome measures. All study participants are currently being treated and monitored after having been diagnosed either with (a) psychotic disorders or (b) anxiety and mood disorders. They have completed questionnaires for clinical evaluation purposes (clinical recovery) will further complete the Recovery Assessment Scale and Citizenship Measure (personal-civic recovery composite index). Descriptive and statistical analyses will be performed to determine internal consistency for each of the subscales, and assess convergent-concurrent validity between clinical recovery, citizenship and personal recovery. Recovery-oriented mental health care and services are particularly recognizable by the presence of Peer Support Workers, who are persons with lived experience of recovery. Upon training, they can personify personalized mental health care and services, that is to say services that are centered on the person’s recovery project and not only on their symptoms. Data from our overall research strategy will lay the ground for the evaluation of the effects of the intervention of Peer Support Workers on clinical recovery, citizenship and personal recovery.
Highlights
Recovery is the official leading paradigm in the transformation of mental health systems and policies in the UK [1], the USA [2], Canada [3], and elsewhere around the world [4]
Several instruments have been developed by clinicians and academics to assess clinical recovery
Data from our overall research strategy will lay the ground for the evaluation of the effects of the intervention of Peer Support Workers on clinical recovery, citizenship and personal recovery
Summary
Recovery is the official leading paradigm in the transformation of mental health systems and policies in the UK [1], the USA [2], Canada [3], and elsewhere around the world [4]. One is akin to the notion of cure in the field of physical health; (A) clinical recovery refers primarily to the reduction of psychiatric symptoms through a curative approach to the disease using psychopharmacology and psychotherapy. With this first axiom of recovery, the role of the ill person is mainly to follow the instructions of professionals and comply with prescribed treatments. Living with the condition is seen as a continuous learning opportunity through which a person can profoundly transform himself of herself, even to the point of not wanting to be cured in the sense of returning to the same state as before the onset of that condition. This is especially true when this condition is associated with harmful lifestyles (e.g., abusive substance use and subsequent depression)
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