The Theory of Recovery Psychology/Preface pt4

Preface Part 4

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• Many I have discussed these concepts with others who had mistakenly thought I wanted to write some kind of testimonial or anecdotal. They obviously failed to understand just what it was I have been talking about. They feel perhaps this subject is important to be as a behavioral health worker, when it is my experience as a student that drives me. I feel that many fear science, as if it were an ugly four lettered word. I have attempted to solicit the assistance of other persons in recovery, believing that they are eventually the primary benefactors of my textbook movement with in the recovery movement, I have attempted to solicit behavioral health workers for their assistance; CPRPs as well as PhDs, the best responses I have received as of yet have been that of college oriented consumers who have recently attended college, and it is still fresh in their minds the level of stigma at some of the most progressive and enlightened circles. It appears to me that many feel it is a difficult concept that a person would write a book; although this is a strange experience to me, maybe my logic is erroneous but I thought books came from people who write.
• Having not attended a university but having read the trickle down of literature from such institutions, this writer has only his previous experience to go upon. In developing the first recovery psychology text, the need for assistance from qualified critics for editing, collaborating, co-writing etc; was absolutely apparent. Methodology was a major consideration of the author. First there was the frustration of explaining to other members of the recovery movement, why such an action was important to the author. A majority of individuals feel reading books are difficult enough, let alone writing books. Many social workers, who pay lip service to the recovery concept, don’t even grasp the concept that psychology is a science taught in colleges, even though I imagine the word might be mentioned in social work textbooks. There are those who are in the recovery movement who fail to see that colleges and universities are even relevant to mental health.
• Obviously, clinical psychology has some connection to the mental health industry.

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