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Mental Health Recovery Frameworks Often Marginalize Personal Narratives
While recovery frameworks challenge traditional psychiatric discourse, this research too often limits lived experience perspectives.
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For people living with mental health challenges, “recovery” can be a contested and highly personal process, not easily conceptualized through psychological or psychiatric concepts. A new meta-theoretical study by scholars Calvin Swords and Stan Houston from Trinity College Dublin examines how different understandings of recovery impact lived experience, mental health practice, and service delivery.
Swords and Houston explain:
“The aims of the research were to evaluate the extent to which a recovery approach informed practice … examine how the differing professionals … viewed the concept [of recovery]; and reach tentative conclusions on how to enhance the implementation of a recovery-oriented approach within practice.”