The Theory of Recovery Psychology/Preface pt3

Preface Part3

In the past textbooks regarding psychiatric conditions have spouted Gestalt psychology, Freudian psychology, Existential psychology, Lobotomy and other theory or practices which are not conducive to the premise of recovery, which indoctrinate a more stigmatizing view of what a person with psychiatric condition experiences. Such that should not be tolerated by psychiatric rehabilitation practitioners, advocates, and consumers alike who consciously oppose discrimination and stigma; exemplify the problems associated with psychiatric conditions; while giving little or no focus on solutions for persons with mental illness demonstrates that persons with psychiatric conditions are abnormal, or defective; instead incorporating that such persons are human, eventually it is time again for persons with psychiatric conditions to reaffirm the adage nothing about us without us. I see a pink elephant in the recovery movement, every time I read about what person with a M.S.W. or a Ph.D. is claiming to be promoting recovery. I watched a video of Pat Deegan as a key note speaker at a conference. She read her essay “What will endure?” In this essay of hers, she discusses the idea of what will people in the future will think of the current recovery movement; she asks the rhetorical question…“in the future what will they think of us now for believing ourselves to be humane, understanding and enlightened?” I think they will say to the present recovery movement “Where was your mass audience!!?” The NAMI “Walk for the mind of America” happens on street downtown on a Saturday, when nobody is down town to see it. It happens to not be of the mind of America at all. It does not get any media coverage once so ever. Instead of walking down some closed anonymous street on a Saturday morning, it would be better to walk to the dean of students or the psychology faculty office at places such as Stanford University, if it were not for the overwhelming stigma generated by the Virginia Tech incident. However, the Virginia Tech incident is why events like the NAMI walk should be at college campuses. The USPRA conference happens in hotel, where many mental/behavior health workers attend. This is great for transforming the mental health system to a recovery-orientated system but this does not reach the masses. Reading vision statements, mission statements, code of ethics, core principles, guidelines, studies, and other documents which serve as a framework for such organizations the likes of USPRA and NAMI; demonstrate the need for action here in this proposal to occur in society, for the sake of progress and advancement for the recovery movement.

• It is this authors notion that promoting self-direction, self-efficacy for consumers, eliminating stigma and discrimination, empowering the consumer, offering the consumer an opportunity to explore their own meaning in life, assisting consumers in their developing a personally satisfactory role in the community and facilitating the recovery process for consumers would occur more easily if the concept of "recovery" was taught at the local community college. I was first inspired to write a textbook when trying to reconcile the stuff taught in training at work, with my studies in school. *I have been speaking about these ideas since I my hire date at a behavioral health agency, to a great many person...the responses have been an almost a negative understanding of what I am talking about to flat out a declaration that I am grandiose... The need to change these scholarly curriculums is apparent from my view as a student. The need for a psychiatric rehabilitation to assist persons with psychiatric disability has been well documented. In the U.S. self-help, family members, advocacy groups, NIMH, the Rehabilitation Services Administration, and many state agencies, however psychiatric rehabilitation continues to be of little interest to university educators of mental health professionals.

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