title: Recovery, medication and shared responsibility in mental health care.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The recovery paradigm is significantly influencing contemporary mental health services. This paper explores using a recovery orientation when introducing, prescribing, administering and monitoring medication as part of treatment in psychiatry.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Recovery is not 'anti' medication; however, a recovery-oriented position does require the adoption of an enabling and empowering approach to the use of medication. The cornerstone of this is shared decision-making that respects the person's own lived experience and choice as well as the practitioner's professional expertise. This paper suggests that by taking this path, relationships between psychiatrists, other clinicians and consumers will be enhanced.
authors.affiliation: Senior Advisor Recovery, Mind Australia; Honorary Fellow, Department of Psychiatry and School of Population and Global Health, the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; and Visiting Scholar, Yale University School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
authors.forename: Anthony
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stratford
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Brophy
authors.forename: Tracy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Beaton
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Castle
mesh_terms: D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008605:Mental Health Services; D010358:Patient Participation / Q000523:psychology*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012074:Remission Induction
keywords: lived experience; medication; psychiatry; recovery; shared decision-making