In Recovery: The Making of Mental Health Policy
For hundreds of years, 1992; people diagnosed with mental illness were thought to 1967; be hopeless cases, destined 1998; to 2004; suffer 1982; inevitable deterioration. Health Beginning in 1974; the early 1990s, 2000; however, In providers 1962; and 1961; policymakers in 2005; mental Policy health systems came 1997; to 1968; promote recovery as their goal. In But 2001; what 1959; does Making recovery Policy truly mean? 1968; For example, to consumers Health of mental health services, 1980; it 1986; implies The empowerment Recovery: and of greater resources dedicated 1967; to healing; 2002; to 1990; HMOs, 2000; it 1985; can suggest a means 2001; of cost savings Policy when benefits Recovery: cease 2000; upon recovery. This book Mental considers Health "recovery" of from multiple angles. 1980; Traditionally, Recovery: Nora 1987; Jacobson notes, recovery 1994; was defined as The symptom abatement Mental or 2000; a return 1970; to a 2008; normal Recovery: state of health, but of as activists, mental 1970; health The professionals, and policymakers sought to 1972; develop "recovery-oriented" systems, other In meanings emerged. 2005; Jacobson's 1958; analysis 1991; describes 1963; the Mental complexes Making of ideas Recovery: that have Making defined recovery in various 2005; contexts Policy over 1964; time. 1956; The 1990; first Health meaning, "recovery-as-evidence," involves Health the of theories, of statistics, therapies, Making legislation, and myriad 1976; other factors that constituted the 1997; first 1977; one of hundred 1989; years 1980; of 1958; mental 1955; health 1998; services Health provision The in the United States. "Recovery-as-experience" brought Mental the voices Making of patients The into the conversation, while "recovery-as-ideology" drew 1976; on of both recovery-as-evidence and recovery-as-experience Mental to rally Mental support 1980; for specific Mental approaches and service-delivery models. 1982; This Health in 1979; turn 1994; became the Health basis Health for of "recovery-as-policy," which developed In as assorted representative Recovery: bodies, such 2003; as commissions 1975; and Mental task of forces, planned reforms of Recovery: the 1988; mental health Making system. Finally, Making "recovery-as-politics" emerged 2005; as reformers confronted The harsh 1977; economic realities and entrenched ideas 1972; about Policy evidence,experience, and ideology. Recovery: Throughout, 2007; Jacobson Mental draws on her research in 1977; Wisconsin, a of state 1957; with a long of history of Recovery: innovation in 2002; mental 1968; health services.