Oil and water or oil and vinegar? Evidence-based medicine meets recovery.
With the increasing prominence of the notions of "recovery" and "recovery-oriented practice," practitioners, program managers, and system leaders are increasingly asking about the relationship between "evidence-based practices" and recovery. After reviewing the concepts of recovery from mental illness, being in recovery with a mental illness, recovery-oriented care, and evidence-based medicine, the authors argue for a complementary relationship between recovery and evidence-based practices. This relationship is neither simple nor straightforward, but results in a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts through which each element benefits from the influence of the other.
Davidson
Larry
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Department of Psychiatry, Program for Recovery and Community Health, Yale University School of Medicine, Erector Square 6 West, Suite #1C, 319 Peck Street, New Haven, CT 06513, USA. Larry.Davidson@Yale.edu
Drake
Robert E
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Schmutte
Timothy
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Dinzeo
Thomas
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Andres-Hyman
Raquel
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D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*