What do people know about the health and well being recovery approach?

Question

I have been doing some research in Mental Health and the recovery approach, there are various different theories. Has anybody got some information on this subject?

Answer 1

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer has written a book called "Real Magic". He teaches you how to achieve, happiness, health, success and prosperity in daily life through positive thinking and action. If you follow his theory, you can overcome mental health issues and whatever obstacles are blocking your road to recovery. That's just one man's theory. Hope that helps.

Answer 2

As far as I understand your question, it would seem to relate to the realisation by mental health services (particularly those in Scotland) that just dishing out the drugs and/or the set programmes doesn't really make much impact on individual people's lives.

ALL psychotherapists and counsellors, and some psychiatrists and psychologists, have spent their lives working with individuals to attain recovery. This does not mean achieving 'normality', whatever that might be, but becoming able to manage one's difficulties so that they no longer dominate or limit one's life unnecessarily. This may include major changes in one's approach to/understanding of life, but might not.

The theories range from psychoanalytic/psychodynamic approaches which work on the assumption that experiences in early childhood determine one's ways of operating in the world, and that while these may have been very effective when we were little (eg always trying to look after a fragile mother and ignore one's own needs) they don't work so well now (looking after everyone and feeling a martyr) - right through to cognitive behavioural approaches which aim to challenge how we think and behave and make conscious changes to that. In between there are such things as gestalt therapy (concerned with the here and now interaction), transactional analysis (looking at the parent/adult/child aspects of oneself and how those interact with others' parent/adult/child) and innumerable others.

So this is a huge subject and you really need to understand a great deal about the theories, far more than could possibly be outlined on here. What I have sketched is cursory in the extreme. If what you are interested in is what the UK state mental health professions are looking at, take a look at http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pressparliament/pressreleases2006/pr911.aspx

ADDITION: I probably should have emphasised in the above the importance of strengths, qualities, spiritual understandings, relationships etc while facing the difficulties of one's psychological condition. My own approach, psychosynthesis, emphasises how the client's healthy aspects provide a context and capacity for containing and managing the difficulties, and this is important in what is called the 'recovery approach'.

Answer 3

This is the whole field of mental health. You can go to school and major just in this. There is so much out there that you will have to narrow it down some.

Answer 4

the only obstacles interior a restoration concentrated strategies-set could could desire to be; the staff's ability to alter their roles and start up up listening to shoppers, as apposed to telling them what to do, and the shoppers dedication to accepting ailment, and following their own well being, restoration action Plan (WRAP) In my journey, the restoration strategies-set has had many helpful consequences, specially with Bi polar problems, yet additionally effectual with schizophrenia and melancholy.

Answer 5

Everyone will give you different advice,you need to do what works for you, or whom ever you are researching for.