title: Measuring recovery in mental health services.
abstract: An international policy goal is to orientate mental health services around the support of 'recovery': the development of new meaning and purpose in one's life, irrespective of the presence or absence of symptoms of mental illness. Current progress towards a recovery orientation in mental health services is summarized, indicating that pro-recovery policy is in advance of both scientific evidence and clinical practice. Key evaluation challenges are outlined, and indicators of a recovery focus are described. These include quality standards, consumer-clinician interaction styles, and belief and discourse markers. This underpins a proposal for a new approach to service evaluation, which combines attainment of objectively-valued social roles and of subjective-valued personal goals. This approach has applicability as a methodology both for clinical trials and routine practice.
authors.affiliation: Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK. m.slade@iop.kcl.ac.uk
authors.forename: Mike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Slade
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008603:Mental Health; D008605:Mental Health Services; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011788:Quality of Life; D016896:Treatment Outcome