Recovery Model Framework

Vocabulary flashcards covering key terms and principles from the lecture on the Recovery Model in mental health care.

Recovery (Mental Health)

A personal process of regaining meaning, purpose and autonomy in life while living with or beyond mental illness; it is not synonymous with cure or symptom elimination.

Biomedical Model

Traditional health-care paradigm focused on identifying disease causes, eliminating symptoms and returning individuals to their previous level of functioning.

Personal Recovery

WHO concept that stresses a self-directed, self-determined life despite emotional distress, emphasising empowerment and meaningful goals over being ‘normal again’.

Recovery-Oriented Care

Professional practice that centres on the person’s own recovery goals, fosters collaborative partnerships and rejects a one-size-fits-all, time-limited notion of cure.

Essential Features of Recovery

Key principles: 1) personal & unique journey, 2) people can and do recover, 3) recovery ≠ cure, 4) built on collaboration, 5) clinicians must believe in recovery, 6) no fixed timetable, 7) not something professionals ‘do to’ consumers.

Collaborative Partnership

Therapeutic alliance in which consumers and health workers share decision-making power and responsibility for recovery strategies.

Connectedness

Recovery element involving inclusion and supportive relationships that foster a sense of belonging.

Hope and Optimism

Core recovery dimension involving the belief that a better life is possible and that goals are attainable.

Identity (in Recovery)

Reclaiming or redefining a positive sense of self beyond the limitations or stigma of mental illness.

Meaning in Life

Rebuilding purpose, pursuing dreams and aspirations and finding value in daily living.

Empowerment

Giving consumers choice, control and opportunities to develop or strengthen skills necessary for self-determination.

Positive Risk-Taking

Measured willingness to experiment, make mistakes and learn—viewed as vital for growth and progress toward goals.

Mental Health Nursing & Recovery

Nursing approach that integrates collaboration, connectedness, hope, identity, meaning, empowerment and safe risk-taking into care planning and delivery.