Recovery model

The recovery model is an approach to mental health care that centers personal agency, hope, and the possibility of a meaningful life, including when symptoms persist.

Personal recovery: A deeply personal process of building a satisfying, hopeful life, with or without ongoing mental health challenges. It names the individual process the model places at the center of care.
Shared decision-making: A process in which a person and clinician make health-care decisions together using evidence and personal preferences. It turns personal agency into concrete choices about care.
Medical model of disability: A framework that locates disability primarily in an individual's impairment or health condition. The recovery model resists reducing a person's life to illness or impairment.
Anthony: William Anthony was an American psychologist whose influential work helped define recovery-oriented mental health services. His definition framed recovery as a personal process rather than a clinical endpoint.
Recovery approach in mental health policy: The adoption of recovery principles in public mental health policy and service-system design. Policy adoption made recovery a system-wide aim rather than an individual service philosophy.
Self-determination: The capacity and right to make choices about one's own life and care. Recovery-oriented practice treats choice and control as essential to progress.
Recovery-oriented practice: Mental health support organized around a person's goals, strengths, rights, and participation. It translates the model's values into principles for service delivery.
Chronic disease model: A framework for managing long-term conditions through ongoing monitoring, treatment, and self-management. Recovery can include continued symptoms without making lifelong illness management the sole goal.
Patricia Deegan: Patricia Deegan is an American psychologist and psychiatric survivor who wrote influentially about recovery and lived experience. Her account connected recovery to dignity, self-direction, and life beyond illness.
Peer worker: A mental health service worker whose role draws on personal lived experience of mental health challenges. The model helped establish lived experience as a source of professional expertise.

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