The Recovery Model
The recovery model is a way to help those who have mental illnesses in a way to look at the recovery and not focus on the actual diagnoses. This type of therapy is changing and molding into a way that the professionals can help those with severe mental illness can have a better understanding to recovery. By using the concepts of the recovery model therapists, social workers, and other people helping a patient recovery can be more achievable.
While doing research I found that that the recovery model gives the client a role in the process, allowing them to have a say in their recovery by offering resources (Lunt, 2004). The resources that the professional gives to the client are to help the client find at least two options that they did not think or do themselves. By using the recovery model resentments can be avoided because the client has a say in their own recovery. …show more content…
The recovery model also implies that the client can deal with their mental health illness and live a life that does not hinder them (Onken, Craig, Ridgway, Ralph, & Cook, 2007).
This model is has steps that include ideals, development, and result. Psychosocial, economic experiences, spiritual, and cultural circumstances in a client’s life changes continuously, as a result recovery looks at these things along with first order change and second order change to allow the client to become involved with integration.
Unlike other therapies used in mental health, the recovery model focuses on the client’s positioning and person involvement (Waldemar, Arnfred, Petersen & Korsbek, 2016). By using this strategy the goal is to help the client have a substantial life with optimism, achieving goals sets, feeling valued by the society, and relationships that help. This model allows the idea that clients can recover from a mental illness (Scheyett, DeLuca, & Morgan, 2013). Parallel to the Prochaska model, the recovery model helps the patients that are in different stages and therapeutic methods (Reisner,
2005).
However, there are inconsistencies in whether the recovery model is better than other therapies such as evidence-based practices (Reisner, 2005). Also, when doing an analysis of the literature on the topic of the recovery model there are gaps in the research on minorities like the African American people in America (Jones, Hardiman, & Carpenter, 2007). Because of the recovery models possible applicability to African Americans, having more research done on this group could show greater numbers in recovery.
The idea of mental health recovery has been around since the 1930’s and has gained more support in mental health since the 1980’s (Onken, Craig, Ridgway, Ralph, & Cook, 2007). In the 1970’s recovery arose within the used movements, heath researchers and policy makers began to take note of the model (Waldemar, Arnfred, Petersen & Korsbek, 2016). Many of the ideas and concepts were taken from the community support and rehabilitation models (Reisner, 2005). During the 1990s recovery was used in mental health due to two decades of research on the topic by the World Health Organization (Gehart, 2011). Countries outside the United States such as Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Australia, became pioneers in the recovery model through the 1990s and in 2002 the President’s New Freedom Commission the recovery model was recommended for mental health illnesses.
The development of the recovery model began when people who had mental illnesses wanted a more hands on approach to their recovery illness (Scheyett, DeLuca, & Morgan, 2013). The patients wanted to be seen as something other than their illness like other marginalized groups. The movement of the recovery model has origins in the consumer right movement, hence the term consumer when referring to clients. These consumers also wanted to have more involvement in the community, and not be in institutions that release them with little know about their own recovery. As of 2005 Wisconsin and Ohio are transitioning in the direction of the recovery model (Reisner, 2005). In 2004 California allowed Proposition 63 to be agreed upon which gave $900,000,000 for a recovery based program in therapy (Gehart, 2011).
The major concepts of the recovery model according to Onken, Craig, Ridgway, Ralph, & Cook are: hope, self-determination, agency, meaning/purpose, awareness/potentiality, and interaction with others. Within these concepts are detailed ideas on what needs to be achieved to successfully be in recovery. After reading these ideas I found that there were key concepts that I feel are important in the recovery model. Hope is the crucial part of recovery which is used as a way to look into the future and not dwell on the aspects of the mental illness that is happening at the moment.
By establishing hopes in the recovery process is the first step to recovery (Onken, Craig, Ridgway, Ralph, & Cook, 2007). A sense of agency implies that the client is competent to make the changes needed with a mental illness, even in internal and external resources. Self-determination has an impact in many aspects of recovery. When planning the recovery needed the client directs their own goals from various options. When interacting with one’s internal drive and an environment that has support this allows the client to have a meaning and purpose in the recovery.
When aware that change is possible and embracing the future changes the client shows sign of awareness (Onken, Craig, Ridgway, Ralph, & Cook, 2007). Whereas, potentiality is when the client looks and finds that change is achievable. Coping in the recovery model is the capability to develop skills and resources in handling the mental illness. Healing is a key aspect in the recovery model that comprises of the mind, body, and spirit.
This progression can be raw, but helps find a way to integrate a new way of living and ways to regulate symptoms of the mental illness (Onken, Craig, Ridgway, Ralph, & Cook, 2007). Wellness assists in the recovery, when using coping skills and being active in the process of recovery this shows high levels of wellness. When the client rebuilds their life will aspects that were better than the ones previously involving difficulties, allowing them to be better than before.
Postmodernism and social constructionism are the closest of all psycho and family therapies to the recovery model (Gehart, 2011). When looking at the postmodern therapy the recovery model emphases on sociopolitical impact of analytic revelations and how it relates to the clients identity narrative, which can hinder the clients observed chances and prospects. Also, both recovery and postmodern therapy share at least four assumptions. These assumptions include the experience of mental illness, developing identity narratives, strengths and resources, and social justice.
The importance of the recovery model to marriage and family therapy practice is the idea that the client has a say in their own therapy process. If other therapies such as evidence based do not work on a client then using the recovery model and allowing the client to become more active could help. The idea that the therapist is not solely responsible for the recovery, and that the client does not see the therapist as superior may possibly be a better fit for those who are marginalized in other therapy techniques.
On a personal level by applying the concepts of the recovery model in helping me become a more effective marriage and family therapist I will have a multiple tools when helping clients. Since every person, couple, and family is different there will not be a one size fits all in therapy. If one model does not work, then I can move to another, and if a evidenced past theory is hindering the therapy process then by using the recovery model I can allow the client to apply what they know and learn.
While doing research I found that that the recovery model gives the client a role in the process, allowing them to have a say in their recovery by offering resources (Lunt, 2004). The resources that the professional gives to the client are to help the client find at least two options that they did not think or do themselves. By using the recovery model resentments can be avoided because the client has a say in their own recovery. …show more content…
The recovery model also implies that the client can deal with their mental health illness and live a life that does not hinder them (Onken, Craig, Ridgway, Ralph, & Cook, 2007).
This model is has steps that include ideals, development, and result. Psychosocial, economic experiences, spiritual, and cultural circumstances in a client’s life changes continuously, as a result recovery looks at these things along with first order change and second order change to allow the client to become involved with integration.
Unlike other therapies used in mental health, the recovery model focuses on the client’s positioning and person involvement (Waldemar, Arnfred, Petersen & Korsbek, 2016). By using this strategy the goal is to help the client have a substantial life with optimism, achieving goals sets, feeling valued by the society, and relationships that help. This model allows the idea that clients can recover from a mental illness (Scheyett, DeLuca, & Morgan, 2013). Parallel to the Prochaska model, the recovery model helps the patients that are in different stages and therapeutic methods (Reisner,
2005).
However, there are inconsistencies in whether the recovery model is better than other therapies such as evidence-based practices (Reisner, 2005). Also, when doing an analysis of the literature on the topic of the recovery model there are gaps in the research on minorities like the African American people in America (Jones, Hardiman, & Carpenter, 2007). Because of the recovery models possible applicability to African Americans, having more research done on this group could show greater numbers in recovery.
The idea of mental health recovery has been around since the 1930’s and has gained more support in mental health since the 1980’s (Onken, Craig, Ridgway, Ralph, & Cook, 2007). In the 1970’s recovery arose within the used movements, heath researchers and policy makers began to take note of the model (Waldemar, Arnfred, Petersen & Korsbek, 2016). Many of the ideas and concepts were taken from the community support and rehabilitation models (Reisner, 2005). During the 1990s recovery was used in mental health due to two decades of research on the topic by the World Health Organization (Gehart, 2011). Countries outside the United States such as Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Australia, became pioneers in the recovery model through the 1990s and in 2002 the President’s New Freedom Commission the recovery model was recommended for mental health illnesses.
The development of the recovery model began when people who had mental illnesses wanted a more hands on approach to their recovery illness (Scheyett, DeLuca, & Morgan, 2013). The patients wanted to be seen as something other than their illness like other marginalized groups. The movement of the recovery model has origins in the consumer right movement, hence the term consumer when referring to clients. These consumers also wanted to have more involvement in the community, and not be in institutions that release them with little know about their own recovery. As of 2005 Wisconsin and Ohio are transitioning in the direction of the recovery model (Reisner, 2005). In 2004 California allowed Proposition 63 to be agreed upon which gave $900,000,000 for a recovery based program in therapy (Gehart, 2011).
The major concepts of the recovery model according to Onken, Craig, Ridgway, Ralph, & Cook are: hope, self-determination, agency, meaning/purpose, awareness/potentiality, and interaction with others. Within these concepts are detailed ideas on what needs to be achieved to successfully be in recovery. After reading these ideas I found that there were key concepts that I feel are important in the recovery model. Hope is the crucial part of recovery which is used as a way to look into the future and not dwell on the aspects of the mental illness that is happening at the moment.
By establishing hopes in the recovery process is the first step to recovery (Onken, Craig, Ridgway, Ralph, & Cook, 2007). A sense of agency implies that the client is competent to make the changes needed with a mental illness, even in internal and external resources. Self-determination has an impact in many aspects of recovery. When planning the recovery needed the client directs their own goals from various options. When interacting with one’s internal drive and an environment that has support this allows the client to have a meaning and purpose in the recovery.
When aware that change is possible and embracing the future changes the client shows sign of awareness (Onken, Craig, Ridgway, Ralph, & Cook, 2007). Whereas, potentiality is when the client looks and finds that change is achievable. Coping in the recovery model is the capability to develop skills and resources in handling the mental illness. Healing is a key aspect in the recovery model that comprises of the mind, body, and spirit.
This progression can be raw, but helps find a way to integrate a new way of living and ways to regulate symptoms of the mental illness (Onken, Craig, Ridgway, Ralph, & Cook, 2007). Wellness assists in the recovery, when using coping skills and being active in the process of recovery this shows high levels of wellness. When the client rebuilds their life will aspects that were better than the ones previously involving difficulties, allowing them to be better than before.
Postmodernism and social constructionism are the closest of all psycho and family therapies to the recovery model (Gehart, 2011). When looking at the postmodern therapy the recovery model emphases on sociopolitical impact of analytic revelations and how it relates to the clients identity narrative, which can hinder the clients observed chances and prospects. Also, both recovery and postmodern therapy share at least four assumptions. These assumptions include the experience of mental illness, developing identity narratives, strengths and resources, and social justice.
The importance of the recovery model to marriage and family therapy practice is the idea that the client has a say in their own therapy process. If other therapies such as evidence based do not work on a client then using the recovery model and allowing the client to become more active could help. The idea that the therapist is not solely responsible for the recovery, and that the client does not see the therapist as superior may possibly be a better fit for those who are marginalized in other therapy techniques.
On a personal level by applying the concepts of the recovery model in helping me become a more effective marriage and family therapist I will have a multiple tools when helping clients. Since every person, couple, and family is different there will not be a one size fits all in therapy. If one model does not work, then I can move to another, and if a evidenced past theory is hindering the therapy process then by using the recovery model I can allow the client to apply what they know and learn.