Developing Recovery Oriented Practice -

A guide to writing reports and letters

Recovery and Independent Living PEG Advisory Paper 9

This Guide has been produced by Devon Partnership Trust to support mental health workers.

It states:

"If we are to ‘Put recovery at the heart of all we do’ that includes our written communications and in particular those that we share with people who use services e.g. letters between practitioners about them and reports for managers hearings and Mental Health Review Tribunals.

But what does that mean in practice?

A recovery oriented approach to the creation of our written communications is an application of recovery supportive values and principles to our letters, reports, notes and records which can increasingly be co-created with the people they are about. It does not avoid or confuse difficult truths but describes them such as to support recovery."

Download the full Guide here