The following courses were created as part of our relationship with the United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (USPRA). These four courses require audio and represent a PowerPoint presentation on "Forwarding the Recovery Paradigm," presented in co-sponsorship with Magellan Health Services.
This 1.5-hour course will present two significant documents related to the delivery of recovery-based mental health services. The first document was developed in New York State over a four-year period, and has been contributed to and reviewed by over 10,000 users of mental health services. The document is known as the White Paper, "Infusing Recovery Based Principles into Mental Health Services." The second document, recently released by SAMHSA, is a consensus paper known as "The Ten Components of Recovery." The audience will see the similarity between these two documents--both have a unique perspective relating to recovery-oriented systems.
The mental health system of the past century was designed, at best, to maintain people with psychiatric disabilities in the community and, at worst, to segregate people with psychiatric disabilities from the community. Now that a recovery vision is guiding mental health systems in many states, the entire system needs to be redesigned to be consistent with this vision. In order to accomplish this redesign, a consensus description of the dimensions of recovery must be understood, the empirical rationale for this system redesign must be described, the previous errors in service system design recognized and eliminated, and the current benchmarks for a recovery oriented system detailed. This course is 1.5 hours.
This 1.5 hour course will focus on various ways in which people can forge their own paths to recovery and on ways in which mental health services can either promote or impede the person's progress down these paths. Based on research involving people in recovery in a variety of capacities, the presenters will describe the active role of the person in his or her own recovery and its various components, some of the steps the person can take to assume and exercise such an active role, and some of the ways in which existing mental health services will need to be transformed, not only to allow for, but more importantly to actively encourage and support people in reclaiming the driver's seat in their own treatment and rehabilitation, as well as in their lives as a whole.
This 1.5 hour course discusses recovery-based skills and their applications, assessment of skills and areas of strength and areas for improvement. It identifies strategies for further skill development and how to access resources for continual improvement of recovery skills.