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My evolving understanding of recovery

Robyn Lorna Lees (OT Assistant/WRC Recovery College Campus Coordinator, based at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK)

Mental Health and Social Inclusion

ISSN: 2042-8308

Article publication date: 5 August 2014

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this viewpoint is to discuss a personal account of the author's personal journey of recovery and evolving understanding of recovery.

Design/methodology/approach

A personal narrative describing the ways in which the author's understanding of recovery has been challenged and has evolved. Reference to theories of learning is made to understand this process.

Findings

That reflection and re-evaluation of long held beliefs is a painful process. It involves not simply adding to existing knowledge but “supplantive learning” – learning as loss: changing how the author sees things having processed new “threshold concepts” (Atherton, 2013b).

Originality/value

A personal account of the painful process of change that has relevance for both people rebuilding their lives with mental health conditions and those who are working with them.

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Citation

Lorna Lees, R. (2014), "My evolving understanding of recovery", Mental Health and Social Inclusion, Vol. 18 No. 3, pp. 125-132. https://doi.org/10.1108/MHSI-07-2014-0020

Publisher

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2014, Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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