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Clinical Pathways Resource Guide - CEIC

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Illness Management and Recovery<br />

�� Illness management and recovery are aimed at helping consumers<br />

acquire the information and skills needed to collaborate effectively effectively<br />

with professionals and significant others in their treatment, to<br />

minimize-the minimize the effects of the mental illness on their lives, and to be<br />

able to pursue personally meaningful goals.<br />

�� Variety of methods are aimed at helping consumers deal more<br />

effectively with their disorder, including psycho-education psycho education about<br />

mental illness and its- its treatment, teaching strategies that promote<br />

effective use of medication, developing relapse prevention skills, skills,<br />

and improving methods for coping with symptoms.<br />

�� Additional techniques that can be subsumed under the broad<br />

category of illness management and recovery include social skills skills<br />

training to address social dysfunction and cognitive therapy for<br />

psychosis.<br />

Adapted from Mueser, K., Torrey, W.C., Lynde, D., Singer, P. & Drake, R.E. (2003) and from the<br />

Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons With Co-Occurring Disorders, TIP 42<br />

157

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