Guides for Practice

Guides for people who work in health and care services. Most recently published first.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQs) - Thirty of the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Recovery and Recovery-Oriented Practice (along with some beginning answers)
'What exactly does the recovery movement add? First and foremost, the recovery movement was—and is—a civil rights movement' (page 10).
SAMHSA’s Recovery to Practice FAQs July 2011 SAMHSA / Recovery To Practice 1.26 MB 2011 pdf Download 566
Probably the most well thought out and seasoned guidance on developing peer support workers in the UK / NHS context.
Guidelines on Developing Peer Support - Scotland Lesley Smith and Simon Bradstreet,, Scottish Recovery Network 880.02 KB 2011 pdf Download 422
'What, over the next 25 years, will be the most important changes for people with mental health problems and for the mental wellbeing of our society as a whole?'
Looking Ahead - The Next 25 Years in Mental Health (Sainsbury) Centre for Mental Health 357.28 KB 2011 pdf Download 658

Workforce development and the contribution of ‘lived experience’
'This paper will describe some of our experience of engaging with workforce development and training in a large NHS Trust, which is seeking to interweave a recovery emphasis into other required training processes, but with acknowledgement that the tension of competing priorities remains.' The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice (2011) v6, n1, 17-28

Steps towards 'Putting Recovery at the heart of all we do’ Glenn Roberts, John Good, James Wooldridge and Elina Baker 317.05 KB 2011 pdf Download 776
Rethink recovery series: volume 4
This study involves a trial of a new approach to supporting mental health services to become more recovery-focused. The intervention used a mix of strategies to achieve this goal, including information sharing, personal recovery
training and team reflection.
REFOCUS Manual - Promoting recovery in community mental health services Victoria Bird, Mary Leamy, Clair Le Boutillier, Julie Williams and Mike Slade. 837 KB 2011 pdf Download 823
'There is little consistent guidance on the content of recovery-oriented and socially inclusive practice and what may be the new competencies and skills that would most effectively support recovery outcomes. Life coaching to support recovery for people with mental health needs is emerging as a creative possibility with considerable potential to support this ambition.' Advances in psychiatric treatment (2010), vol. 16, 459–467
Life coaching for mental health recovery: the emerging practice of recovery coaching Rani Bora, Saija Leaning, Alison Moores & Glenn Roberts 164.38 KB 2010 pdf Download 971
Guidelines designed to support good practice in service user and carer
involvement in the work of clinical psychologists and within clinical psychology services.
Service Users and Carers in Clinical Psychology Services British Psychological Society 223.8 KB 2010 pdf Download 2309
Presentation by Glenn Roberts
Making Recovery a Reality: The Devon Story … so far 4.13 MB 2010 PPoint Download 708
What does putting recovery at the heart of everything mean when it comes to prescribing and medication?
Recovery Orientated Prescribing and Medicines Management Devon Partnership Trust 319.04 KB 2010 pdf Download 1197
Wonford Hospital Library, Exeter - Recovery Bibliography 2010
Recovery – a selective list of books & journal articles Mary Smith 151.29 KB 2010 pdf Download 806

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