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An empirical conceptualization of the recovery orientation

Schizophrenia ResearchPublished 13 July 2004
Sandra G. Resnick, Alan Fontana, Anthony F. Lehman, Robert A. Rosenheck
Citations232
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score1.21
SNIP0.98

TL;DR

There is a bidirectional relationship between recovery attitudes and the positive clinical outcomes that are the goals of EBPs and the evidence-based practice (EBP) movement may help to identify interventions that promote the recovery orientation and help to advance recovery attitudes.

Abstract

We propose here an initial approach to measuring and conceptualizing recovery attitudes. We also suggest that the evidence-based practice (EBP) movement may help to identify interventions that promote the recovery orientation and help to advance recovery attitudes. We suggest that there is a bidirectional relationship between recovery attitudes and the positive clinical outcomes that are the goals of EBPs. Through the use of empirically derived conceptualizations of recovery, EBPs can provide a mechanism for identifying treatments that promote the recovery orientation. The conceptualization proposed here can, thus, serve as a tool to assess changes in recovery attitudes during participation in specific EBPs.

Keywords

PsychologyMedicineHealth Professions