Recovery CPD

What is distinctive about putting recovery at the heart of mental healthcare? What does recovery add to our understanding of the nature of mental health and illness? Is there a recovery model in contrast with bio-medical or psycho-social models?This session explores the conceptual underpinnings of these questions through four related questions:

1. What is a recovery model?

2. Can we defend the recovery model?

3. Which values?

4. Why narratives?

Slides for the session are here.

My own publications which relate to these issues include:

Directly on the recovery model

Thornton, T. and Lucas, P. (2010) ‘On the very idea of a recoverymodel for mental health’ J Med Ethics 37: 24-8

Thornton, T. (2012) ‘Is recovery a model?’ in Rudnick, A. (ed) The Recovery of People with Mental Illness Oxford University Press: 236-51

On values based practice

Thornton, T. (2011) ‘Radical liberal values based practice’ Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 17: 988-91

Thornton, T. (2008) ‘Values based practice and reflective judgement’ Philosophy Psychiatry and Psychology 15: 125-133

On narrative understanding

Thornton, T. (2010) ‘Narrative rather than idiographic approachesas counterpart to the nomothetic approach to assessment’ Psychopathology 16: 284-291

Thornton, T. (2010) ‘Psychiatric explanation and understanding’ European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 6: 95-111

Thornton, T. (2008) ‘Does understanding individuals require idiographicjudgement?’ European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 258 Suppl 5:104–109