North Devon Primary care trust are consulting on a new mental health strategy. They express the following under the heading 'New thinking in mental healthcare'
Historically, people with mental illness were not expected to recover and were given a poor prognosis with the illness taking a uniformly downward spiralling course. The extensive evidence based literature and information that is now available that promotes the concept of'wellbeing' has enabled service users and workers to look differently at the support and treatment that is required to help someone towards their recovery.
The recovery model has recently been adopted as the prevailing model for care and treatment of those with severe and enduring mental illness including psychosis. Recovery has been described in many different ways as a process, an outlook, a vision, and a guiding principle. Instead of focusing on symptons and relief from symptons, a recovery approach aims to support an individual in their own personal development, self esteem, identify and finding a meaningful role in society. The approach has been suggested as a new paradigm for delivering services. This approach is further enhanced throught the development of improved interventions including medicines and phsychological therapies.
The approach has application to practice and service development suggesting that both should support the 'five foundations of recovery';hope,personal responsibility, education,self-advocacy, developing and maintaining a support system. The consequence for service development is insuring the principles are reflected in decisions made. Services should promote the development of the individual rather than traditional medical models.
I have checked with the primary care trust and am advised that this covers Alzheimer's disease.
Even if you live outside of glorious Devon perhaps you would like to send your comments to {Email address removed}. I am sure all contributions will be gratefully received!!! My Mother has Alzheimers and I find the utmost difficulty relating this draft strategy to hers and my situation.
{Sorry, I believe the email address previously quoted here to be incorrect, so I have removed it. Please use the phone number instead - Sorry, Nada}
Historically, people with mental illness were not expected to recover and were given a poor prognosis with the illness taking a uniformly downward spiralling course. The extensive evidence based literature and information that is now available that promotes the concept of'wellbeing' has enabled service users and workers to look differently at the support and treatment that is required to help someone towards their recovery.
The recovery model has recently been adopted as the prevailing model for care and treatment of those with severe and enduring mental illness including psychosis. Recovery has been described in many different ways as a process, an outlook, a vision, and a guiding principle. Instead of focusing on symptons and relief from symptons, a recovery approach aims to support an individual in their own personal development, self esteem, identify and finding a meaningful role in society. The approach has been suggested as a new paradigm for delivering services. This approach is further enhanced throught the development of improved interventions including medicines and phsychological therapies.
The approach has application to practice and service development suggesting that both should support the 'five foundations of recovery';hope,personal responsibility, education,self-advocacy, developing and maintaining a support system. The consequence for service development is insuring the principles are reflected in decisions made. Services should promote the development of the individual rather than traditional medical models.
I have checked with the primary care trust and am advised that this covers Alzheimer's disease.
Even if you live outside of glorious Devon perhaps you would like to send your comments to {Email address removed}. I am sure all contributions will be gratefully received!!! My Mother has Alzheimers and I find the utmost difficulty relating this draft strategy to hers and my situation.
{Sorry, I believe the email address previously quoted here to be incorrect, so I have removed it. Please use the phone number instead - Sorry, Nada}
