Recovery resources
Recovery means building a meaningful life, but it can be different for everyone and there are many different approaches. We've produced various reports looking at recovery from different angles. You can download our information free of charge from this page.
100 ways to support recovery - A guide for mental health professionals
This booklet identifies 100 ways in which people working across the mental health sector can support the recovery of people with mental health problems.
The author Dr Mike Slade says: “Recovery is an idea which has developed out of the experience of people living with, and beyond, mental illness. The mental health system already helps many people to live meaningful and purposeful lives, but we can do better.”
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Getting back into the world - Reflections on lived experience of Recovery
This booklet focuses on the opportunities as well as obstacles that people may find on their ‘recovery journey’.
The information comes from discussions between researchers with personal experience of mental illness and 48 interviewees with similar experiences.
Getting back into the world (1126 kb)
Recovery Insights : Learning from lived experience
This report is about the different ways in which people live with and recover from persistent or recurring mental health problems. It draws on 55 people’s personal experience of mental illness and psychiatric treatment.
The booklet offers practical guidance specifically for:
- People experiencing mental health problems
- Family and friends
- Mental health professionals.
Refocus - Refocus- promoting recovery in mental health services
This booklet describes an intervention aimed at increasing the focus of community adult mental health teams on supporting personal recovery.
Empowering people - coaching for mental health recovery
Coaching is about empowering individuals to generate their own solutions to problems and taking small but consistent steps towards self-management. This booklet considers particular challenges when applying coaching to mental health.Resources from the Centre for Mental Health
The Centre for Mental Health also have a Recovery Series.
You can view these by clinking on the links below:
- Implementing Recovery - A methodology for organisational change (Sep 2009)
- Making Recovery a Reality - a lived experience perspective of the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health workshops (Jan 2010)
