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Journal Articles Available on the Internet

This page includes links to recovery-oriented journal articles that are available on the Internet, as well as articles that address system and program issues.  

Thanks to all the organizations that are willing to share articles online.  And, special thanks to the Boston Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation for making so many journal articles available to people in recovery and family members who otherwise might not have access to the articles.  

Note: Clicking on an article title will open a new page.  To return to this page, simply close the article.  

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Article:

Author & Publisher:

A Guide To Mental Health Transformation - NEW Mark Ragins, M.D.; The Village Integrated Service Agency.
Adding Peers to the Workforce - NEW Lori Ashcraft and William A. Anthony (2007).  Behavioral Healthcare.  Article link on the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation website.
Client-Centred Practice: An Exchange of Views - NEW This article was published in T. Sumsion (eds.) (2006).  Client-centred practice in occupational therapy: a guide to implementation, 2nd edition.  Oxford, UK: Elsevier Ltd.  Link on the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation website.
AACP Guidelines for Recovery Oriented Services  

-While this is a set of organizational guidelines rather than a journal article, we believe that it can be of significant value to community and statewide agencies/boards.

American Association of Community Psychiatrists (2003).  Provided on the AACP web site.
A Long and Winding Road: The Process of Recovery from Severe Mental Illness   Sullivan, W.P. (1994).  In Psychological and Social Aspects of Psychiatric Disability, Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation

A Recovery Oriented Service System: Setting Some System Level Standards (PDF)

William Anthony (2000) The Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation.

A slab over my head: Recovery Insights from a Consumer’s Perspective   McGrath, P. and Jarrett, V. (2004).  The International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation.  Article on the journal website.

A Working Definition of Empowerment

Judi Chamberlin (1997) The Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation.

Acceptance: Some Reflections (PDF)

LeRoy Spaniol & Cheryl Gagne (1997). Acceptance: Some Reflections. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 20(3), 75-77.

An Empowerment Revolution Plan

Mark Ragins, M.D.; The Village Integrated Service Agency.

Community Integration and Measuring Participation

Salzer, M.S., & Baron, R.C. (2006). Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Collaborative on Community Integration. Available online at www.upennrrtc.org

Discovering Recovery  Deegan, Gene (2003).  Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 26(4), 368-376.
Discovering the Fidelity Standards of Peer Support in an Ethnographic Evaluation   MacNeil, Cheryl and Shery Mead (2003). mentalhealthpeers.com
Exemplary Rural Mental Health Services Delivery   Knight, E.L. (2004).  Timothy J. Coakley Leadership Award (First Place) - American College of Mental Health Administration Foundation.  On the Dougherty Management Associates, Inc. website.
How to Accomplish Practice Change in Behavioral Healthcare in Less Than One Year   Berger, N. (2004).  Timothy J. Coakley Leadership Award (Honorable Mention) - American College of Mental Health Administration Foundation.  On the Dougherty Management Associates, Inc. website.
Integrating Physical Activity Into Mental Health Services for Persons With Serious Mental Illness  Richardson, C.R., Faulkner, G., McDevitt, J., Skrinar, G.S., Hutchinson, D.S., and J.D. Piette (2005).  Psychiatric Services, 56(5), 324-331. On the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation website.
Make yourself at home: People living with psychiatric disability in public housing  

Jones, R., Chesters, J., and  Fletcher, M. (2003) The International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation.

Patterns and Correlates of Workplace Disclosure among Professionals and Managers with Psychiatric Conditions (PDF) Marsha Langer Ellison, Zlatka Russinova, Kim MacDonald-Wilson and Asya Lyass (2003). Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation (18, pp. 3-13).  Provided on the Boston Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation web site.
Peer Support: A Theoretical Perspective Mead, S., Hilton, D. and L. Curtis (?).  On the mental health peers website.
Peer Support: What Makes it Unique Mead, S. & C. MacNeil (2006).  The International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation.
Promoting Self-Determination for Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities Through Self-Directed Services: A Look at Federal, State, and Public Systems as Sources of Cash-Outs and Other Fiscal Expansion Opportunities  Cook, Judith; Shawn Terrell and Jessica Jonikas (2004).  SAMHSA funded project.
Providers' Hope-Inspiring Competence as a Factor Optimizing Psychiatric Rehabilitation Outcomes (PDF) Russinova, Zlatka (1999). Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 16(4), 50-57.  Provided on the Boston Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation web site.

Psychological Self-Help

Clayton E. Tucker-Ladd; Mental Health Net.

Psychosocial Rehabilitation: Issues and Answers for Psychiatry Hunter McQuistion, MD; Robert Goisman, MD & Clifton Tennison, Jr., MD. (1999). Provided on the American Association of Community Psychiatrists web site.
Quality Issues in Consumer/Family Direction Nerney, Thomas (2004). Center for Self-Determination.
“Recovering” Consumers and a Broken Mental Health System in the United States:  Ongoing Challenges for Consumers / Survivors and the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health McLean, Athena (2003).  The International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation.  Article on the journal of psych. rehab. website.

Recovery With Severe Mental Illness: Changing From A Medical Model to A Psychosocial Rehabilitation Model

Mark Ragins, M.D., The Village Integrated Service Agency.

Removing Bias in Language Committee on Disability Issues in Psychology (2003).  American Psychological Association.
Self-Determination Among Mental Health Consumers/Survivors: Using Lessons From the Past to Guide the Future Cook, J. and Jonikas, J. (2002).  Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 13(2).  Posted on the University of Illinois at Chicago website.

Sewing a Mental Illness Recovery Banner

Mark Ragins, M.D.; The Village Integrated Service Agency.

Studying Evidence-Based Processes, Not Practices William Anthony (2003). Psychiatric Services.  Provided on the Boston Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation web site.

The Four Walls

Mark Ragins, M.D.; The Village Integrated Service Agency.

The Journey Towards Wellness (PDF) Dori Hutchinson (2000).  The Boston Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Recovery Center.
The Maine and Vermont Three-Decade Studies of Serious Mental Illness: Matched Comparison of Cross-Sectional Outcome DeSisto, Harding, McCormick, Ashikaga, Brooks (1995) British Journal of Psychiatry (on the Boston Center for Psych Rehab website)
The Maine and Vermont Three-Decade Studies of Serious Mental Illness:  Longitudinal Course Comparisons   DeSisto, Harding, McCormick, Ashikaga, Brooks (1995) British Journal of Psychiatry (on the Boston Center for Psych Rehab website)
The Role of Improved Physical Fitness in Rehabilitation and Recovery (PDF) Dori Hutchinson, G. Skrinar, & C. Cross, (1999). The Role of Improved Physical Fitmess In Rehabilitation and Recovery. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 22(4), 355-359.

They Said I Would Never Get Better

Andrea Schmook; The Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation.

What is Recovery? A Conceptual Model and Explication Nora Jacobson and D. Greenley (2001). What is Recovery? A Conceptual Model and Explication. Psychiatric Services, 52, 482-485.

What Recovery Means to Us

Shery Mead, MSW and Mary Ellen Copeland, MS, MA; Copyright 2000, Plenum Publishers, New York, NY.

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