Download or read book Recovery in Mental Illness written by Ruth O. Ralph and published by Amer Psychological Assn. This book was released on 2005 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovery in Mental Illness: Broadening Our Understanding of Wellness explores what recovery means from various perspectives, drawing from sociological models and from qualitative studies that incorporate mental health consumers' subjective experiences. Readers seeking to better understand the nature of wellness will find a rich and nuanced discussion of recovery as process, outcome, and natural occurrence. Researchers and therapists alike will benefit from this examination of evidence-based services and consumer-endorsed practices that may not be measurable by traditional quantitative methodologies.