title: [Recovering from schizophrenia: an intervention model].
abstract: Outcome studies show that schizophrenia improves with the action of time. A minority of patients will be completely release from the illness. However the others will keep on suffering from the illness or its consequences. The aim of this paper is to put forward a psychological recovery model. The model is built from the experience of people who describe themselves as recovered from schizophrenia. Common elements of various patients' accounts and qualitative studies show that recovery is a step-by-step process. The recognition of these different steps should allow clinicians to provide more specifically psychosocial treatments validated to enable patients to go faster from one step to the other.
authors.affiliation: Unité de réhabilitation, Département Universitaire de Psychiatrie Adulte, Site de Cery 1008 Prilly.
authors.forename: Jérôme
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Favrod
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Scheder
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011379:Prognosis; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000379:methods; D012008:Recurrence; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012944:Social Support; D016896:Treatment Outcome