Recovery: Power sharing and Empowerment

Purpose:

Consumer and family member investment strategies in the recovery process leads to increased success in recovery from mental disorders.

Empowerment of consumers and their family members is a way to accomplish this

Objectives

At the end of this workshop, the participants should:1. Know about how recovery is defined by people whose lives are affected by mental illnesses.

2. Identify some resources, skills, and efforts to maximize recovery.

3. Understand the use of mindfulness in recovery.

Recovery means:

Doing the best you can with what you have to work with (Consumer/Family member/Mental health provider)

Recovery is a state of wellness (Consumer/Family member/Mental health provider)

is meeting the needs of the consumer that involves health, lifestyle and working in the community without stigma. Recovery is a journey that is individual .Recovery is very possible (Family member)

Recovery means:

To get the person back to where they were before the events occurred. (Rehab therapist)

To have access to great and reasonable priced mental health, including medication (Family member)

Recovery Means (cont)

Process through science, medicine, and therapy to improve the quality of life for the, mentally ill and their families (Family member)

When the client and his or her family can live in a way that is not greatly disrupted by the symptoms of their mental health (Mental health professional)

When the client and his or her family can live in a way that is not greatly disrupted by the symptoms of their mental health (Consumer/Family member)

Stability, positivity, creativity (Consumer)

Being able to function as normally as possible in society as a whole (Consumer/Family member/Provider)

Recovery means (continued)

Bonney and Stickley (2008) describe the present (2008) state of knowledge of recovery (paraphrasing Turner, 2002)

It is ``. . . an idea, a movement, a philosophy, a set a values, a paradigm, [a] policy, and a doctrine for change.'‘

Recovery means (continued)

Every stakeholder group identified had a different idea of the nature of recovery and how mental health services should be delivered to consumers.

Bonney and Stickley (2008)

Components of recovery

Responsibility

Respect

Peer support

Strengths-Based

Non-linear

Holistic

Empowerment

IndividualizedPerson-centered

Self direction

Hope

Resources

Source: www.samhsa.gov: National consensus statement on mental health recovery

Individual and environmental Components of Recovery

For recovery to be successful, change is required of the individual in the environment and interplay is necessary between the individual and environmental changes that creates:

hope, purpose, potential, respect, and meaning

Individual and environmental Components of Recovery (continue) Individual Components of Recovery

Healing and Reconstruction

Internal and external Sense of self Developmental growth Physical wellness Emotional wellness Mental wellness Spiritual wellness

Individual and Environmental Components of Recovery (cont) Personhood Self reliance Self esteem Personal resourcefulness Self determination Self care Environmental Components Social relationships Mutual support Family Friends

Individual and environmental components of recovery Peers Neighbors Colleagues Community affiliation Full citizenship Sense of home Meaningful activities Job and career Education Service and volunteer opportunities`

Individual and environmental components of recovery (cont) Leadership development

Sports and exercise

Hobbies

Individual and environmental components of recovery (cont) Resources: -- Livable income -- Safe and descent housing -- Health care and social services -- Transportation -- Means of communication -- Recovery supports

Empowerment

“The ongoing capacity of individuals or groups to act on their own behalf to achieve a greater measure of control over their lives and destinies”

Source: Linhurst, et al (2002) quoting Staples (1990, pp. 30-31)

Empowerment

Rogers, Chamberlain, Ellison, and Crean developed an empowerment scale (1997)

Components of empowermentFrom Rogers (1997) quoted by Corrigan (2004)

Self efficacy Powerlessness Self-esteem Effecting change Optimism/control over future Righteous anger and Group/community action

Barriers to empowermentFrom Corrigan (2004); Brockington (1993)

Fear and exclusion

Authoritarianism

Benevolence

Fostering empowermentCondensed from Corrigan (2004)

Collaboration Consumer satisfaction/input for services Lodges and clubhouses Supported housing/employment Consumers as providers Consumer-operated services Participatory action research

Recovery: Power Sharing and Empowerment Please give your responses to the following items.

1. My Gender is: Female 69.0% N/A 1.4% Male 29.6% 2. The area I live in is: Rural 31.0% Suburban 28.2% Urban 40.8%

3. I am a (an) Consumer 29.6% Family Member 71.8% Mental Health Professional 26.8% 19

4. If you are a family member, please list your familial relationship with the consumer (e.g., mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, brother, sister, spouse, cousin, etc). Response Count 49

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6. Please give your definition of recovery.

Response Count 100%

7. If you are a family member, how would you rate the quality of life for

your relative who is a consumer of mental health services using your definition of recovery?

Excellent 3.8%; Very Good 19.2%; Good 25.0%; Fair 1.9%; Poor5.8%

I do not know 2.43%

8. If you are a consumer, how would you rate the quality of life for yourself using your definition of recovery?

Excellent 18.2%; Very Good 21.2%; Good 9.1% Fair 9.1%; Poor 12.1%; I do not know 0.0%; N/A 30.3%

9. Complete recovery from mental illness is possibleStrongly Agree 27.5% ; Agree 33.3% ; Neutral 17.4%; Disagree 21.7%; Strongly Disagree 0.0%; Other 2.67%

References

Bonney, S., Stickley, T. (2008). Recovery and mental health: A review of the British literature. Journal of psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 15, 140--153.

Corrigan, P. W. (Autumn, 2004). Enhancing personal empowerment: people with psychiatric disabilities American Rehabilitation, (28)1, 10--24.

References (continued)

Linhorst, D. M., Hamilton, G., Young, E., Eckert, A. (October, 2002). Opportunities and barriers to empowering people with severe mental illness through participation in treatment planning. Social Work, (47)4, 425--434.

References (continued)

President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. (2003). President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health (Final report). Retrieved June 2, 2008 from http://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov/reports/FinalReport/FullReport.

References (Cont)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2005). National consensus statement on mental health recovery. Washington, DC: Author (National Mental Health Information Center).

References (continued)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2005). National summit on mental health recovery. Washington, DC: Author (National Mental Health Information Center).