5. Promoting Recovery
Working in partnership to provide care and treatment that enables service users and carers to tackle mental health problems with hope and optimism and to work towards a valued lifestyle within and beyond the limits of any mental health problem.
‘Promoting recovery is the capability that defines the process that service users and providers engage in to enable self-empowerment and self-determination. Recovery is about recovering what was lost: rights, roles, responsibilities, decision-making capacity, potential and mental well-being.
‘Recovery is what people experience themselves as they become empowered to achieve a meaningful life and a positive sense of belonging in the community.’
(Department of Health 2004)
What this means is: Helping service users and carers to deal with their mental health problems and to keep a sense of hope for the future. Helping them to find a way of life that is rewarding to them whether or not they continue to have mental health problems.