Phases of the Recovery Process From Psychiatric Disabilities
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psychiatric rehabilitation, recovery,, mental healthAbstract
The purpose of this paper is to describe the phases of recovery from psychiatric disabilities and their implica - tions for interventions. The paper identifies the many variables at work in recovery, including phases that oc - cur over time, areas of development within which people change, developmental tasks and processes, and turn - ing points that represent important shifts within the phases and within the developmental dimensions.
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