The Recovery Model Of Mental Illness

Recovery Model To recover from something means to get better or to heal. Recovery is easy to understand when you can see the person’s wombs heal and go away, but how can one tell when someone is in recovery when their wombs are invisible to the outside. Mental illness can be said to be one of those invisible womb. Mental illness is often it is an illness that goes not talked about in certain communities and cultures. Addicts abuse certain substance to avoid the reality they have a mental illness, but when they seek treatment for their addiction they are often faced with the reality that they not only need help for drug and alcohol but for the mental illness as well. The recovery model is one that can be applied to their treatment. This essay
He stated that the person’s feelings to behave in that manner comes from past experiences in their environment. (Murdock, Theories of counseling and psychotherapy: a case approach, 2013) The person-centered concept is an instructional theory that strives to improve the person’s instinctual passion to want change in their life. When applying person-centered concept to the recovery model and mental illness there are certain elements the individual should demonstrate. Those elements are hope, self-determination, agency, meaning and awareness. Hope is said to be the key element to recovery. The individual has to believe in his or her self as well as the future. Self-determination calls for the person suffering from the illness to establish the necessary steps to help guide them throughout the recovery process. Awareness is needed by the individual. He or she needs to understand and acknowledge that the future can hold some obstacles but that is a part of recovery
This negative/shameful thought process has been passed down from generation to generation. The postmodernism model touches on this process. The postmodernism model suggest that there is no such thing as objective reality and life doesn’t come with preconceived beliefs. When using postmodernism and recovery model together the marriage and family therapist can help the client come to an understanding that their beliefs about their illness may not be their own. If the therapist can change the way the client view their mental health, they may can instill new positive thoughts that could cause the client to seek recovery/stability in their life. Postmodernism states that reality is reflexivity and humanity. Reality is also constructed through language. (Walker, "The Social Construction of Mental Illness and its Implications for the Recovery Model", pp. 71-87) The individual can start taking responsibility for their recovery by realizing their words can have an effect on others, and take the time to realize how other’s words may have impacted