From patient to service user

Conceptual framework for personal recovery in mental health: systematic review and narrative synthesis

“…5 This has led to the concern that 'its scope can make a cow-catcher on the front of a road train look discriminating'. 24 An empirically based conceptual framework can bring some order to this potential chaos. Characteristics of the recovery journey provide conceptual clarity about the philosophy.…”

From the Editor's desk

“…Perhaps the term ‘rehabilitation’ had been damaged in psychiatry by its former association with industrial mental health units attached to old mental hospitals, but the ‘recovery model’, although now widely embraced, is overused and detracts from the rare and exciting occasions when it genuinely happens against a setting of hopelessness. 10 David Brunskill’s apt comment that the recovery model’s scope ‘can make a cow-catcher on the front of a road train look discriminating’ 11 chimes with my own view but a few more articles such as that by Leamy et al (pp. ) may help to change my mind.…”