The Theory of Recovery Psychology

A Textbook on Recovery Psychology

Recovery psychology is the study of recovery from psychological disorders. It is paralell to the concept of positive psychology, in the aim of focusing on the good things in life, instead of the bad things in life. It approaches clinical disorders not from the view of what a disorder is as in abnormal psychology, or how a disorder is treated as in clinical psychology but rather how does the individual with the disorder recover. This book is designed as a comprehensive text on psychiatric rehabilitation and recovery. Often, the two are spoken of as if the two were the same subject. In actuality the two are complimentary subjects. Psychiatric rehabilitation is a professional technology, where as recovery is a lived expeirince for persons with psychiatric conditions coping with circumstances related to their circumstances.

Dedication

In Memory of…

Bryce Smith

(October 1, 1961-July 29, 2003)

Acknowledgement

Loren Booda who first coining the term "recovery psychology"

Notice of original work

This text is an original work of secondary research. By that the author means that it is not first hand research, the author has not done research using the scientific method nor has he subjected his work to peer review. This text is the culmination of a philosophical interpretation of the recovery movement and its inevitable implications for the research based science of abnormal psychology and the applied science of clinical psychology. This philosophical interpretation which is the foundation for this text can be simply expressed as: Recovery+Psychology=Recovery Psychology. It is no surprise that the subject of science and philosophy are closely related aspects of the same thing.

Unit 1

The Recovery Model

Unit 2

Psychological Disorders

Unit 3

Treatment and Rehabilitation

Unit 4

The Future