TY - JOUR
T1 - Challenges to assisting with the recovery of personal identity and wellness for persons with serious mental illness
T2 - Considerations for mental health professionals
AU - Buck, Kelly D.
AU - Roe, David
AU - Yanos, Philip
AU - Buck, Benjamin
AU - Fogley, Rebecca L.
AU - Grant, Megan
AU - Lubin, Fabrice
AU - Lysaker, Paul H.
PY - 2013/6
Y1 - 2013/6
N2 - With the expectation that many can recover from schizophrenia, the implications for the roles of practitioners to assist them are critical. Although much has been written about how to empower a recovering person to develop a more positive identity, an important area which seems relatively underdeveloped in the literature pertains to the challenges and suffering borne from the process of recovery itself. The current paper will suggest that there are four related, though independent, challenges associated with the recovery process that practitioners should be prepared to address: (1) the discomfort elicited by the loss of, or threats to, a previous sense of identity, (2) the loss of previous ways of making meaning of the world, (3) awareness of concrete losses in one's life which have occurred, and (4) accepting oneself as an ordinary, though agentic, person. For each we will review experimental, clinical, and first-person literature and refer to an illustrative vignette. Through recognition of these potentially painful challenges, practitioners may be even more effective in supporting recovery.
AB - With the expectation that many can recover from schizophrenia, the implications for the roles of practitioners to assist them are critical. Although much has been written about how to empower a recovering person to develop a more positive identity, an important area which seems relatively underdeveloped in the literature pertains to the challenges and suffering borne from the process of recovery itself. The current paper will suggest that there are four related, though independent, challenges associated with the recovery process that practitioners should be prepared to address: (1) the discomfort elicited by the loss of, or threats to, a previous sense of identity, (2) the loss of previous ways of making meaning of the world, (3) awareness of concrete losses in one's life which have occurred, and (4) accepting oneself as an ordinary, though agentic, person. For each we will review experimental, clinical, and first-person literature and refer to an illustrative vignette. Through recognition of these potentially painful challenges, practitioners may be even more effective in supporting recovery.
KW - depression
KW - grief
KW - identity
KW - metacognition
KW - recovery
KW - schizophrenia
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84878653941&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1080/17522439.2012.699544
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/17522439.2012.699544
M3 - Article
SN - 1752-2439
VL - 5
SP - 134
EP - 143
JO - Psychosis
JF - Psychosis
IS - 2
ER -