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Understanding Resilience and Recovery from a Consumer Perspective

Explore the concepts of resilience and recovery from a consumer perspective. Learn about the characteristics of resilient individuals, the assumptions of recovery, and strategies to eliminate seclusion and restraint.

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Understanding Resilience and Recovery from a Consumer Perspective

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  1. Module 4 Understanding Resilience and Recovery from the Consumer Perspective

  2. Learning ObjectivesUpon completion of this module the participant will be able to: • Define resilience • List characteristics of resilient people • Define recovery and list the eight assumptions of recovery • Effectively implement recovery and resilience strategies that lead to the elimination of seclusion and restraint.

  3. Overview

  4. Resilience

  5. Resilient People Beat the Odds ”Resilient people are those who ‘beat the odds.’ They have good healthy outcomes, even in the presence of enormous adversities in their lives.” Michael Resnick, Ph.D., 1999

  6. Resources to Be Developed • “Young people are resources to be developed, not problems to be solved.” Karen Pittman, Ph.D. • We could substitute, “people diagnosed with a mental illness” in Dr. Pittman’s quote – and that is exactly the paradigm shift we are moving towards. People diagnosed with a mental illness are resources to be developed, not problems to be solved.

  7. Resilience is….. • “… the power of the human spirit to sustain grief and loss and to renew itself with hope and courage defies all description.” Dr. Daniel Gottlieb, 1991 • “…when success occurs despite major challenge” Ann Masten, Ph.D. • “…self-righting capacities – the strengths people, families, schools, and communities call upon to promote health and healing.” SAMHSA

  8. Exercise: Someone Who Believed in Them Helped Them to Recover

  9. As the old man walked along the beach at dawn,he noticed a young woman ahead of him picking up starfish and flinging them back into the sea.Finally, catching up with her,he asked why she was doing this.The answer was that the starfish would die if left until the morning sun.“But the beach goes on for miles and there must be millions of starfish,” said the old man.“How can your effort possibly make a difference?”The young woman looked at the starfish in her hand,Threw it to safety in the waves and said,“It makes a difference to this one!”

  10. Recovery

  11. Recovery is… …a common human experience and a deeply personal, unique process of changing one’s attitudes, values, feelings, goals, skills or roles toward our understanding of mental illness (Anthony, 1993).

  12. Recovery is… …“a process, an outcome, and a vision. We all experience recovery at some point in our lives from injury, from illness, from loss, or from trauma. Recovery involves creating a new personal vision for one’s self. (Spaniol, Gagne, & Koehler, 1997).

  13. Exercise: Inside Outside Video

  14. Participant Manual: Recovery from Mental Illness: A Guiding Vision of the Mental Health Service System in the 1990’s

  15. Recovery Assumptions • Recovery can occur without professional intervention. • A common denominator of recovery is the presence of people who believe in and stand by the person in need of recovery. • A recovery vision is not a function of one’s theory about the causes of mental illness. • Recovery can occur even though symptoms reoccur.

  16. Recovery Assumptions • Recovery changes the frequency and direction of symptoms. • Recovery does not feel like a linear process. • Recovery from the consequences of the illness is sometimes more difficult than recovering from the illness itself. • Recovery from a mental illness does not mean that one was not “really mentally ill”.

  17. Exercise: What Are We Recovering From?

  18. What are Consumers Recovering From? • Major losses of people and opportunities • The catastrophe of mental illness • Trauma from mistreatment • Negative professional attitudes • Lack of recovery skills of professionals • Devaluing and disempowering programs, practices, and environments • Lack of enriching opportunities • Stigma and discrimination from society • Lack of opportunities for self-determination • Crushed dreams • Lack of a sense of self, valued roles, and hope

  19. What do Direct Care Staff and/or Families Recover From? • Worn out beliefs • Hopelessness and helplessness • Need to be in control • An unbalanced relationship • Disbelief in consumer’s ability • Fear of mental illness • Discrimination • Hopes and expectations

  20. Journal/Take Action Challenges

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