Oral

This session addresses resilience and recovery in the experience of mental illness. It addresses measurement of well-being, patterns and determinants of recovery, teaching resilience and the importance of community organization. It concludes with a presentation on the role of portraiture in society’s conception of mental illness and belief in recovery.

Session Objectives: Discuss the relative value of a multidimensional well-being measure as compared to the more usual single-dimensional measure based on income. Discuss patterns and determinants of recovery for clients of recovery-oriented community mental health programs. Describe the results of a resilience training program's effect on participants knowledge, attitudes, beliefs. Discuss the importance of community organization involvement in recovery services. Participants will evaluate the use of portraiture, its revealing nature, and how it can personalize the abstraction of mental illness and mental health care in ways that are largely not possible when patients’ anonymity is maintained.

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)