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Recovery Articles on the Internet

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Author & Publisher:

Healing a Troubled Mind Takes More Than a Pill - NEW Barber, Charles (2008). Washington Post.  Reprint: Advocacy Unlimited website

10 Ways to De-Stress Your Life

NEC Staff and Affiliates; NEC Newsletter

A Journey Toward Recovery: From the Inside Out Walsh, D. (1996) Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal.  On the Boston Center for Psych Rehab website
A Mere Pacifist No More   Gallant, Sarah.  Recovery Center of Hamilton County.
A New Vision of Recovery: People can fully recover from mental illness; it is not a life-long process   Daniel Fisher, M.D., Ph.D.; NEC Newsletter

A Wellness Tool: Developing and Keeping a Circle of Support

Mary Ellen Copeland; Help Horizons

Advance Directives Are What You Make Them

Xenia Williams; NEC Newsletter

Advocacy: A Wellness Tool   Mary Ellen Copeland (on mental health recovery site)

Applying for SSDI - A Self-Help Guide

Janie M. Laubscher; About.com

Blueprints for Building Self Esteem

Mary Ellen Copeland; Help Horizons

But You're Not Like My Consumers

Renee Kopache

Checking Up On Unexpected Feelings Kavich, D. (2001). Help Horizons.com

Confessions of a Non-Compliant Patient

Judi Chamberlin; NEC Newsletter

Consumer Directed Transformation to a Recovery-Based Mental Health System   Fisher, D. M.D., Ph.D. and J. Chamberlin.  National Empowerment Center.
Crisis and Connection  Mead, Shery and David Hilton (mentalhealthpeers.com)

Developing A Wellness Toolbox

Mary Ellen Copeland

Exercise and Self Care   Stanley J. Gross, Ed.D.; Help Horizons
Express Yourself!  Assessing Self-Determination in Your Life Cook, J.A.; Peterson, C.; Jonikas, J.A. (2004).  University of Illinois at Chicago.

Fostering Hope

Stanley J. Gross, Ed.D.; Help Horizons

Free to Choose: Transforming Behavioral Health Care to Self-Direction   DHHS Publication No. SAM-05-3982.  Rockville, MD: Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2005.
Getting What you Want   Stanley J. Gross, Ed.D.; Help Horizons
How persons recovering and clinicians can promote self-managed care By Daniel Fisher, M.D., Ph.D. National Empowerment Center website

Making Advance Directives Work for You

Daniel Fisher, M.D., Ph.D; NEC Newsletter

Meds Alone Couldn't Bring Robert Back By Jay Neugeboren - Newsweek 2/6/2006 - NEC Website

Online and Off the Street: Homeless Man Reboots his Life

Karen Samples: The Cincinnati Enquirer

Organizing and Operating a Speakers Bureau Marcia Lovejoy; National mental health consumers' self-help clearinghouse website

People can Recover From Mental Illness

Daniel Fisher, M.D., Ph.D. and Laurie Ahern; NEC Newsletter

Raising Difficult Issues With Your Service Provider   Peterson, C., Jonikas, J., Cook, J. & F. Priester. (2003). University of Illinois at Chicago.

Reclaiming Your Power During Medication Appointments with Your Psychiatrist

Patricia Deegan, Ph.D.; NEC Newsletter

Recovery as a Self-Directed Process of Healing and Transformation (PDF) Patricia Deegan (2001). Intentional Care

Recovery at Your Own PACE (PDF)

Laurie Ahern and Daniel Fisher, M.D.; NEC

Recovery: Overcoming the Negative Impact of Mental Illness Renee Kopache (2003)

Relapse Prevention

Stanley J. Gross, Ed.D.; Help Horizons

See the Person Behind the Illness - Me   Harrington, S. (2005).  The Grand Rapids Press.  Grand Rapids: MI.
Seeking Supported Employment: What You Need to Know   Cook, J. & C. Peterson (2003). University of Illinois at Chicago.

Taking Back Control of Your Life

Mary Ellen Copeland; The Mental Health American, Fall 2000

Telling Your Recovery Story: Giving Meaning and Purpose to your Pain by Using It to Help Someone  Braiterman, Ken (?). On the mental health recovery website (Mary Ellen Copeland.

The Awakening

Karl

The Empowerment Model of Recovery: Finding Our Voice and Having a Say   Daniel Fisher, M.D., Ph.D.; NEC Newsletter
The Journey Home Selina I. Glater, M.A., R.M.T.; Sanctuary Psychiatric Centers of Santa Barbara

They Said I Would Never Get Better

Andrea Schmook; The Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation

This is Your Life: Creating Your Self-Directed Life Plan (workbook)   Jonikas, J. & J. Cook (2004). University of Illinois at Chicago.
Vicki Cousins: A Survivor's Story   Kost, B. (?). South Carolina Department of Mental Health.
We are More than Our Disorder   Allen P. Wilkenson, J.D. NEC Newsletter
You and Me   Debbie Sesula; NEC Newsletter
Your Mental Health Rights: How They Protect and Support Your Recovery   Ohio Legal Rights Service (2004)

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