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June 29, 2006

Practice Guidelines for Recovery-Oriented Behavioral Health Care

How do you actually do a recovery-oriented service system? ... The following document answers this question by identifying eight domains of a recovery-oriented service system ranging from degree of participation of persons in recovery in the recovery planning and system development process to ”Identifying and Addressing Barriers to Recovery.” It then lists a dozen or so concrete, practical and well-researched action steps or guidelines in each domain. It answers questions like: “You will know when you are placing primacy on the participation of people in recovery when…” The document gives examples, identifies potential barriers, and uses the words of people in recovery to explain what each domain means and what they can expect in that domain.

Posted by Gary Holden at June 29, 2006 7:22 AM