Recovery In Mental Health

Recovery is a concept that patients, family members' and health professionals aim as an ultimate outcome measure when a patient is presented to a care environment. Even though all parties join forces to achieve recovery, perspectives of recovery vary among different disciplines (Huiting, 2013). Recovery in the mental health setting refers to the “process of changing one's attitudes, values, feelings, goals, and skills in order to live a satisfying life within the limitations caused by illness” (Anthony, 1993). In physical health context, recovery is recognized as a progress towards pre-illness state “defined by improvement in functional status and the perception that one is recovering” (Allvin, Berg, Idvall & Nilsson, 2006). Lack of consensus
Recognized Health Journals such as “International Journal of Caring Science” and government website, such as US Department of Health and Human Services is used to research and select trending concept related to nursing. After selecting recovery concept, these research literatures will also be used in defining the concept, its attributes, antecedents, consequences discussed in the article “Recovery in Mental Illness: A Concept analysis” by Xie Huiting,
Economists see “recovery” as a period of growing business activity indicating the end of an economic downturn. This definition suggests that recovery “takes place to change things into its original, better state” (Huiting, 2013). In another interpretation, recovery is said to be” a return to wholeness that occurs by conservation of energy and reinstatement of integrity” (Levine, 1991*). In Aerospace Science, Berger (2007*) describes “recovery” as a process of bringing back Spacecraft for repair and reuse. Brennaman & Lobo (2011) also describes recovery associated with organ donation as a surgical remover of viable “organs and tissues and prepares them for transplantation to a recipient”. It was noted that the recovery in this situation applies to the organ but not the recipient. In psychological setting,” recovery represents achieving psychological well-being and wholeness, reinstated integrity, transition from illness to health, loss of depression, anger, anxiety, fatigue and passivity”( Alvin, et al., 2006). In mental health context, concept of recovery is not operationalized. Lack of consensus among different healthcare specialties, healthcare professionals, patients and family caused US Department of Health with collaboration of other local mental health organizations to come up with consensus statement that clearly define the concept.