1 - Recovering the US Mental Healthcare System
The Past, Present, and Future of Psychosocial Interventions for Psychosis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2022
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“It is common knowledge that psychosis and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders are often associated with disability and suffering. What is less commonly known is the ample evidence for recovery. Images of disability and dangerousness are visible in our society and media, but we don’t see the millions of people who have lived well with or despite psychosis. For many Americans who experience psychosis, medication and risk management remain the focus of treatment despite the long history of effective psychosocial treatments for psychosis. Mental health stigma endures, both in society and as reflected in poor funding, workforce development, and implementation. This limits research, services available, and dissemination of proven interventions, even when they have empirical support and result in long-term cost savings. Mental health professionals can, and should, play a central role in supporting recovery for people with psychosis, changing harmful messages and stigma, and in advocating for the dissemination and availability of psychosocial interventions for psychosis. This chapter emphasizes historical, current, and intersectional perspectives and challenges to three factors we believe are essential to changing our system: 1. genuine hope; 2. available effective psychosocial interventions; and 3. changing attitudes to support dignity and autonomy.”
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- Recovering the US Mental Healthcare SystemThe Past, Present, and Future of Psychosocial Interventions for Psychosis, pp. 1 - 24Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022