title: Two Birds, One Stone: Unintended Consequences and a Potential Solution for Problems With Recovery in Mental Health.
abstract: Recovery began as a social justice movement. In more recent years, professionals have joined the movement, unintentionally co-opting and mainstreaming the more radical goals of these earlier activist consumer movements. The goals of the patient-centered care movement in general medical care are similar to those of "professional recovery." If mental health professionals instead adopted the language and goals of patient-centered care as a first step toward joining the two movements, the recovery movement could reclaim its social justice roots, and progress would be made toward reducing the duality between physical and mental health care systems. Professionals should return the recovery movement to those with lived experience, adopt the unified language of patient-centered care, and align professional transformation efforts under one holistic movement.
authors.affiliation: The authors are with the VISN 1 New England Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Health Administration, West Haven, Connecticut, and the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University Medical School, New Haven, Connecticut (e-mail: marcia.hunt@yale.edu ).
authors.forename: Marcia G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Hunt
authors.affiliation: The authors are with the VISN 1 New England Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Health Administration, West Haven, Connecticut, and the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University Medical School, New Haven, Connecticut (e-mail: marcia.hunt@yale.edu ).
authors.forename: Sandra G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Resnick
mesh_terms: D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D008603:Mental Health / Q000592:standards*; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000592:standards*; D012935:Social Justice