The Refocus on Recovery 2014 international conference took place on 2 and 3 June 2014.
The conference had four main themes:
- System transformation
- What approaches and specific interventions are used with mental health systems to support recovery?
- What new technologies are emerging?
- How can both front-line interventions and within-system culture be transformed?
- Relationships that support recovery
- How can the recovery resources of existing and new relationships be better harnessed?
- Does a recovery orientation change the construction of 'professionalism'?
- What are the active ingredients of peer relationships?
- How do family and friends understand 'recovery' and how do they support it?
- Can inclusive communities be created?
- How can the search for spiritual meaning be supported by others?
- Do coaching and co-production have a contribution?
- Recovery in crisis
- What do people need in crisis?
- How can crisis-orientated services promote hope and post-traumatic growth?
- Do we need new service models, such as recovery houses?
- On close examination, what problems emerge within the recovery movement?
(Critical perspectives are also encouraged within this theme, such as threats posed by recovery rhetoric – eg will this be a cover for service cuts? – and concerns that recovery means employment.)
- Keeping well in daily life
- How can individuals live a life beyond illness?
- How to support well-being when having ongoing mental health problems?
- What well-being research does or does not apply to people experiencing mental health problems?
- What does recovery have to offer for citizenship, empowerment and emancipatory and identity politics?
- Can lived experience be used to address stigma, and is there a role for mental health workers to be social activists?
Our Chief Executive Liz Sayce was a keynote speaker this morning. You can view her presentation here.
