William Anthony, Director of the Boston Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation (1993) identifies recovery as " a deeply personal, unique process of changing one’s attitudes, values, feelings, goals, skills and/or roles. It is a way of living a satisfying, hopeful, and contributing life even with limitations caused by the illness. Recovery involves the development of new meaning and purpose in one’s life as one grows beyond the catastrophic effects of mental illness."
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released a consensus statement on February 16, 2006 outlining principles necessary to achieve mental health recovery. The statement, which includes 10 fundamental components of recovery, was developed by a panel of experts representing mental health consumers, families, providers, advocates, researchers, managed care organizations, state and local public officials and others.
- ROSI Survey
- ROSI Provider Survey
- Technical Assistance & Recovery Organizations
- Advocacy & Legal Organizations
- Associations & Organizations
- Resources on Recovery
- Behavioral Healthcare for Veterans
- Articles
- Online Journals &Publications
Recovery-Oriented Systems Indicator (ROSI) Online Survey
The ROSI survey looks at what helps mental health recovery and what hinders it. To provide the best possible mental health services, we want to know what things helped or hurt your progress during the past six (6) months. The survey is anonymous. We will not ask for any information that would identify you. These survey questions are about your experience with services from a Community Services Board (CSB) or other mental health provider in Virginia. It takes about 15 - 20 minutes to complete.
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The ROSI provider survey complements the ROSI consumer survey by profiling community conditions that may help or hinder mental health recovery. “Community” in this context means the CSB or BHA service area. Please answer yes/no questions to reflect your current activities and report all other questions to reflect the most recently completed fiscal year (i.e., the “report period”). Your responses will help to provide a context in which to better understand the results of ROSI consumer surveys from your community. Please refer any questions to Michael Shank, Director, Community Support Services, DBHDS, PO Box 1797, Richmond, Virginia, 23218 or by email to michael.shank@dbhds.virginia.gov.
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National Consumer Technical Assistance and Recovery Organizations
- Consumer Organization & Networking Technical Assistance Center (CONTAC)
- National Coalition of Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations (NCMHCSO)
- National Consumer Supporter Technical Assistance Center
- National Empowerment Center
- National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse
- Peer-to-Peer Resource Center
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National Consumer Advocacy and Legal Organizations
- Americans With Disabilities Act
- Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
- Mental and Physical Disability Law Reporter
- National Association for Rights, Protection & Advocacy (NARPA)
- Protection & Advocacy Agencies
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Associations and Organizations
- Behavioral Healthcare for Veterans
- Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
- Mental Health America
- Mental Health Association of Virginia
- Mental Health Information Network
- NAMI Virginia
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)
- Reach
- The National Coalition of Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations (NCMHCSO)
- VOCAL
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Resources on Recovery
- Conference Materials: Mental Health Recovery: Research and Practice (September 19, 2006, Coralville, IA)
- Illness Management and Recovery Workbook
- Mental Health Recovery: Phase II Technical Report: Development of the ROSI (2006)
- Mental Health Recovery: What Helps and What Hinders?
- Mental Health Recovery Reference Guide
- Online Recovery Resources
- Practice Guidelines for Recovery-Oriented Behavioral Health Care (Connecticut DMHAS)
- Proposed Model of Mental Health Recovery and Recovery-Oriented Services (state of Connecticut's specific dimensions of recovery)
- Report of the 2005 Recovery Oriented System Indicators (ROSI) Pilot in Virginia
- Repository of Recovery Resources
- Wellness and Recovery Action Plan (WRAP, Mary Ellen Copeland)
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- Alternative Approaches to Mental Health Care
- Crisis and Connection, by Shery Mead, MSW and David Hilton, MA
- Discovering Recovery, by Gene Deegan
- Hope for recovery: Do Patients with Schizophrenia Ever Show Periods of Recovery? (15-Year Multi-Follow-up Study, Harrow M, Grossman LS, Jobe TH, Herbener ES)
- Mental Health Recovery including Wellness Recovery Action Planning, by Mary Ellen Copeland
- Recovery Journal, Pat Deegan, PhD and Associates, LLC
- What Recovery Means to Us, by Shery Mead, MSW
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Online Journals and Publications
- Internet Mental Health (a free encyclopedia of mental health information created by Dr. Phillip Long)
- Mental Health in the Headlines (headlines pertaining to mental health in the news)
- Mental Health Publications
- PLoS Journals of Medicine
- PLoS Medicine (an open-access journal published by the nonprofit organization Public Library of Science)
- PsychCentral (a large, free mental health resource offering consumers information about holiday coping, depression, anxiety, and a wide range of mental health symptoms and treatment resources )
- PubMed Central
(links to many sites providing full text articles and other
related resources)
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***Please Note: The department name has changed to the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services on July 1, 2009 (from the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services). The department’s new Web site address is www.dbhds.virginia.gov. The previous Web site address will continue to work for up to a year after July 1, 2009.***