Research into Recovery

The website of the Section for Recovery

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Julie Williams

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Measuring the contribution of mental health services to the personal recovery of service users.

First supervisor

Mike Slade

Second supervisor

Mary Leamy

Abstract

Abstract

Recovery has become enshrined in the mental health policy of many countries. This provides a challenge to the way mental health workers have traditionally worked. If staff are to work in a different way to support recovery, there is a need to evaluate this. Some measures have been developed to assess the recovery orientation of staff and services from a service user perspective. None of these existing measures were developed in the UK and none have undergone extensive psychometric evaluation. Both of these facts make it difficult to recommend their use in the UK. This research involves the design, validation and use of a new measure –the INSPIRE-that assesses how service
users experience support for their recovery from mental health workers.

Method

This research uses existing measurement design and evaluation methods and is composed of three phases.

Phase One: INSPIRE development

Phase Two: psychometric evaluation of INSPIRE

Phase Three: use of INSPIRE to evaluate the REFOCUS RCT

Status:

April 2010 ongoing

Contact:

Email Julie Williams