Mental Health Recovery Paradigm: Implications for Social Work

Author: Carpenter J.

Source: Health and Social Work, Volume 27, Number 2, 1 May 2002 , pp. 86-94(9)

Publisher: National Association of Social Workers

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Abstract:

Social workers have long been involved in developing, administering, and providing services for people with psychiatric disabilities. Critics of the system, including social workers and mental health consumer–survivor practitioners, have noted that the medical model has been a driving force in policy and services provision. This model is detrimental to consumers' self-efficacy and sense of hope and conflicts with a number of central social work values. The article argues that the values and beliefs of the consumer–survivor recovery movement are closely aligned with those of the profession, and that the movement offers social workers a more promising perspective from which to practice. The primary concepts and values of the evolving recovery paradigm are delineated, and implications for direct practice, administration, policy making, education, and research are discussed.

Keywords: ADULT MENTAL HEALTH; PROFESSIONAL VALUES; PSYCHIATRIC DISABILITIES; RECOVERY

Document Type: Research article

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