Useful Publications

This is a selected bibliography of publications and resources we have found helpful.

 

First-person accounts of recovery

• Chamberlin, J. (1988) On Our Own, London: Mind Publications.
• Deegan, P. (1988) Recovery: the lived experience of rehabilitation. Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal, 11, 11-19.
• Barker PJ, Davidson B, Campbell P (1999) From the Ashes of Experience, London: Whurr Publications.
• Ridgway P (2001) Restorying psychiatric disability: Learning from first person narratives, Psychiatric
• Rehabilitation Journal, 24, 335-343. Lapsley H, Nikora LW, Black R (2002) Kia Mauri Tau! Narratives of Recovery from Disabling Mental Health Problems, Wellington: Mental Health Commission.
• Romme M, Escher S, Dillon J, Corstens D, Morris M (2009) Living with Voices: 50 Stories of Recovery, Ross-on-Wye: PCCS.

 

Understanding what recovery means

• Anthony WA (1993) Recovery from mental illness: the guiding vision of the mental health service system in the 1990s, Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal, 16, 4, 11-23.
• Perkins R, Repper J (2003) Social Inclusion and Recovery. London: Baillière Tindall.
• Roberts G, Wolfson P (2004) The rediscovery of recovery: open to all, Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 10, 37-49.
• Ralph RO, Corrigan PW (2005) Recovery in mental illness. Broadening our Understanding of Wellness.Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
• Farkas M (2007) The vision of recovery today: what it is and what it means for services, World Psychiatry, 6, 4-10.
• Shepherd G, Boardman J, Slade M (2009) Making recovery a reality. Briefing Paper. London: Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.
• Slade M (2009) Personal recovery and mental illness. A guide for mental health professionals, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Recovery support resources

• Tools for Shared Decision Making
• Pathways to Recovery
• Slade M. 100 ways to support recovery. London: Rethink; 2009.

 

Resources for mental health system transformation

• National Institute for Mental Health in England (2004) Emerging Best Practices in Mental Health Recovery, London: NIMHE.
• Care Services Improvement Partnership (2006) Pathways to Recovery Paper 1. Core Vision and Values for a Modern Mental Health System, London: Department of Health.
• Care Services Improvement Partnership / Royal College of Psychiatrists / Social Care Institute for Excellence (2007) A common purpose: recovery in future mental health services, Leeds: CSIP.
• Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health (2009) Implementing Recovery. A new framework for organisational change, London: Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.
• Davidson L, Tondora J, Lawless MS, O'Connell M, Rowe M (2009) A Practical Guide to Recovery-Oriented Practice Tools for Transforming Mental Health Care. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Shepherd G, Boardman J, Burns M (2010) Implementing Recovery. A methodology for organisation change, London: Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.

 

Measures

• Campbell-Orde T, Chamberlin J, Carpenter J, et al (2005) Measuring the Promise: A Compendium of Recovery Measures, Volume II. Cambridge, MA: Human Services Research Institute.
  
• National Institute for Mental Health in England (2008) Outcomes compendium, Birmingham: NIMHE.
• National Social Inclusion Programme (2009) Outcomes Framework for Mental Health Services, London: NSIP.

 

Concerns about recovery

• Unger R (2010) Moving beyond Clinical recovery AND Personal Recovery.
• Mind (2008) Life and times of a supermodel. The recovery paradigm for mental health, London: Mind.
• Mental Health "Recovery" Study Working Group (2009) Mental Health "Recovery": Users and Refusers, Toronto: Wellesley Institute.