Monthly Email December 2012

Dear all

1. RRN Meetings
The date for the next meeting is being decided but will be Spring 2013.

2. RRN membership profiles
Updated Membership Profile attached. If you would like to update your entry please email text to researchintorecovery@kcl.ac.uk. This Membership Profile will be circulated with each RRN monthly email, but not put on our web-site.

3. Conferences & Events
i) 10th ENMESH Conference, Verona, 3-5 October 2013. Theme is "Recovery-oriented mental health services: therapeutic, organisational and economic challenges". Flier attached.

4. Papers
The monthly email includes new publications by RRN members which may be of wider interest. Please send us the reference and abstract for a new publication you would like included. This month we have:

a) M. Slade, M. Leamy, F. Bacon, M. Janosik, C. Le Boutillier, J. Williams and V. Bird. (2012). International differences in understanding recovery: systematic review. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 21, pp 353-364 doi:10.1017/S2045796012000133

Mental health policy internationally varies in its support for recovery. The aims of this study were to validate an existing conceptual framework and then characterise by country the distribution, scientific foundations and emphasis in published recovery conceptualisations. Update and modification of a previously published systematic review and narrative synthesis of recovery conceptualisations published in English. A total of 7431 studies were identified and 429 full papers reviewed, from which 105 conceptualisations in 115 papers were included and quality assessed using established rating scales. Recovery conceptualisations were identified from 11 individual countries, with 95 (91%) published in English-speaking countries, primarily the USA (47%) and the UK (25%). The scientific foundation was primarily qualitative research (53%), non-systematic literature reviews (24%) and position papers (12%). The conceptual framework was validated with the 18 new papers. Across the different countries, there was a relatively similar distribution of codings for each of five key recovery processes. Recovery as currently conceptualised in English-language publications is primarily based on qualitative studies and position papers from English-speaking countries. The conceptual framework was valid, but the development of recovery conceptualisations using a broader range of research designs within other cultures and non-majority populations is a research priority.

Please let us know if there is anything you would like included in the next monthly email, by emailing us at researchintorecovery@kcl.ac.uk

Merry Christmas and have a safe and happy festive season
Best wishes

Becks