PSYC 3690 Chapter Notes -Cognitive Therapy
15 Apr 2013
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Title: recovery and stigma in people with psychiatric disabilities. The ideas of recovery and stigma have mutual effects on each other. Recovery has reintroduced goal directness, hope, and self-determination into comprehensive discussions about mental health and its service system. Stigma is a major hurdle to recovery. People with serious mental illness are sometimes unable to achieve important life goals when the public endorses stereotypes about their disorders and discriminates against them as a result. Just as stigma impedes recovery, so recovery challenges stigma. Stigma is being squelched, as all stakeholders come to understand and adopt the principles of recovery. One of the purposes of recovery as a movement was to reject pessimism and re-inject hope into their lives. Recovery from this perspective is less concerned about outcomes (whether the person achieves some kind of symptom and disability free endpoint) and more about processes. Recovery is more about how a person with mental illness would pursue a meaningful life.
