1. Recovery Principles for Students
Mid West Aries Project

2. Some key Recovery studies Some key Recovery concepts Personal Recovery
Session Aims
Some key Recovery studies
Some key Recovery concepts
Personal Recovery
Discussion, Q & A

3. Patricia Deegan, PhD
I was 18 years old. I asked the psychiatrist I was working with, What’s wrong with me? He said, You have a disease called chronic schizophrenia. It is a disease that is like diabetes. If you take medications for the rest of your life and avoid stress, then maybe you can cope. And as he spoke these words I could feel the weight of them crushing my already fragile hopes and dreams and aspirations for my life. Even some 22 years later, those words still echo like a haunting memory that does not fade.
The philosopher Martin
Heidegger said that to be human means
to be a question in search of an answer.
Those of us who have been labelled with
mental illness are not de facto excused
from this most fundamental task of becoming
human. In fact, because many
of us have experienced our lives and
dreams shattering in the wake of mental
illness, one of the most essential challenges
that faces us is to ask, who can
I become and why should I say yes
to life?

4. The Landmark Recovery Studies
Study
Sample Size
Follow Up (in years)
% Recovered and Significantly improved
Bleuler (1974)
208 23
68%
Huber et al (1979)
502 22
57%
Ciompi (1988)
289 37
53%
Tsuang et al. (1979)
186 35
46%
Harding et al. (1987)
269 32
Total
1,454
Average= 58%
Daniel Fisher

6. Two Definitions of Recovery
Symptom remission; full- or part-time involvement in work or school; independent living without supervision by family or surrogate caregivers; not fully dependent on financial support from disability insurance; and having friends with whom activities are shared on a regular basis. sustained for a period of 2 years. (Liberman et al, 2002)
A deeply personal, unique process of changing one’s attitudes, values, feelings, goals, skills and roles. It is a way of living a satisfying, hopeful and contributing life even with limitations caused by the illness. Recovery involves the development of new meaning and purpose in one’s life as one grows beyond the catastrophic effects of mental illness. (Anthony, 1993)

8. The C.H.I.M.E.

9. CHIME Connectedness Hope Identity Meaning Empowerment
What does this mean to me as a person?
What does it mean to me as a professional?

10. Personal
narratives

11. For More Information Contact us:
Daniel Taylor, Education & Development Officer
Visit us:
ARIES Project
ARI Mid West Project Office
St Joseph's Hospital
Mulgrave Street
Limerick

12. References
Anthony WA (1993) Recovery from mental illness: the guiding vision of the mental health service system in the 1990s, Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal, 16,
Bleuler, Manfred (1974). The long-term course of the schizophrenic psychoses. Psychological Medicine, 4,
Ciompi, L. (1988). Psyche and Schizophrenia. Harvard U. Press, Cambridge,MA.
Deegan, P. (1996) Recovery as a Journey of the Heart. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 19(3),
DeSisto, et al. (1995). The Maine and Vermont three decade studies of serious mental illness. British Medical Journal of Psychiatry 167:
Harding, C. et al. (1987). The Vermont longitudinal study of persons with severe mental illness, I. Methodology, study sample, and overall status 32 years later. American Journal of Psychiatry, 144:
Huber, G., Gross,G., Schuttler,R.. (1975). Long-term follow-up study of schizophrenia. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 53,
Leamy M, Bird V, Le Boutillier C, Williams J, Slade M (2011) A conceptual framework for personal recovery in mental health: systematic review and narrative synthesis, British Journal of Psychiatry, 199,
Liberman RP., Kopelowicz A ., Ventura, J. & Gutkind, D. (2002) Operational criteria and factors related to recovery from schizophrenia, International Review of Psychiatry 2002, 14, 256–272
Tsuang,M., Woolson, R., and Fleming, J. (1979). Long-term outcome of major psychosis. Archives of General Psychiatry, 36:
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