title: [Recovery in mental health policy and practice: an implementation primer].
abstract: With the publication of Quebec's Plan d'Action en Santé Mentale 2005-2010 the province announced an intent to develop a recovery-oriented mental health system. This article provides planners in Quebec, and elsewhere, with an overview of issues pertinent to recovery implementation. It reviews examples of system-level guidelines, program models, practitioner competencies, and measurement tools designed to promote a recovery orientation and suggests how these tools might be used by those charged with implementing recovery in their own jurisdictions. Finally, it raises some of the hard questions about meaning and power that must be addressed during the implementation process.
authors.affiliation: Health Systems Research and Consulting Unit, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario.
authors.forename: Nora
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Jacobson
mesh_terms: D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008603:Mental Health; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011792:Quebec