title: Recovery and money management.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Social recovery and external money management are important approaches in contemporary mental health care, but little research has been done on the relationship between the two or on application of recovery principles to money management for people at risk of being assigned a representative payee or conservator.
  
  
  METHODS
  Out of 49 total qualitative interviews, 25 transcripts with persons receiving Social Security insurance or Social Security disability insurance who were at risk of being assigned a money manager were analyzed to assess the presence of recognized recovery themes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The recovery principles of self-direction and responsibility were strong themes in participant comments related to money management.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Money management interventions should incorporate peoples' recovery-related motivations to acquire financial management skills as a means to direct and assume responsibility for one's finances. Staff involved in money management should receive training to support client's recovery-related goals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, 319 Peck Street, New Haven, CT 06513, USA. michael.rowe@yale.edu
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rowe
authors.forename: Kristin L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Serowik
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ablondi
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wilber
authors.forename: Marc I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Rosen
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005376:Financial Management; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008875:Middle Aged; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012943:Social Security / Q000191:economics; D024182:Uniparental Disomy