The recovery paradigm differentiates from the medical model with the therapist as the source of healing and instead cultivates the power that the consumer holds regarding the processes and outcomes of treatment. According to Ralph, Lambert, and Kidder (2002) practitioners must refrain from seeing those with mental illness as perpetually disabled and instead as people that can recuperate. The client becomes the consumer and is expected to take responsibility for their situation as well as their course of treatment. Within the recovery model there is no finite cure, moreover the goal of treatment is for clients to live a fruitful life while taking into account that relapse may happen and is not indicative of failure (Onken, Craig, Ridgeway,
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Interventions have scientific research that proves their efficacy and rehabilitation is only achieved when symptoms are eradicated. This view of mental illness can carry with it stigma, both external and internal. The client may subconsciously become a passive participant and may become dependent on the provider (Steiner, 2014). The recovery model’s main advantage lies with its flexibility and individualized practices (Freese, Stanley, Kress and Vogel-Scibilia, 2001). Services are designed to bestow dignity upon the consumer and increase accountability. According to Gehart (2012) the recovery model stresses psychological along with social functioning over medical symptoms alone. The recovery model falls short when it comes to having the science to back up the claims. This paradigm is more subjective and less scientific. When the practitioner utilizes the recovery model, the consumer benefits from the collaborative process. Having such a dynamic role in treatment planning results in active …show more content…
His current treatment plan contains nothing that fosters personal accountability. Although he is on medication and undergoing day treatment, he continues to experience side effects along with negative symptoms such as delusions, daily depression and hopelessness. He continues to express suicidal ideation, although with no current intent. He is not autonomous as he lives at home with his family, is under a conservatorship with his mother in control of his finances and does not control his medication schedule. It is imperative that MJ become more active and involved in his treatment in order to decrease his dependency on his mother and take responsibility for his life and the decisions made regarding
Interventions have scientific research that proves their efficacy and rehabilitation is only achieved when symptoms are eradicated. This view of mental illness can carry with it stigma, both external and internal. The client may subconsciously become a passive participant and may become dependent on the provider (Steiner, 2014). The recovery model’s main advantage lies with its flexibility and individualized practices (Freese, Stanley, Kress and Vogel-Scibilia, 2001). Services are designed to bestow dignity upon the consumer and increase accountability. According to Gehart (2012) the recovery model stresses psychological along with social functioning over medical symptoms alone. The recovery model falls short when it comes to having the science to back up the claims. This paradigm is more subjective and less scientific. When the practitioner utilizes the recovery model, the consumer benefits from the collaborative process. Having such a dynamic role in treatment planning results in active …show more content…
His current treatment plan contains nothing that fosters personal accountability. Although he is on medication and undergoing day treatment, he continues to experience side effects along with negative symptoms such as delusions, daily depression and hopelessness. He continues to express suicidal ideation, although with no current intent. He is not autonomous as he lives at home with his family, is under a conservatorship with his mother in control of his finances and does not control his medication schedule. It is imperative that MJ become more active and involved in his treatment in order to decrease his dependency on his mother and take responsibility for his life and the decisions made regarding