Friday, July 20, 2007

Recovery Council 7-20-2007

Part 2:

Great lunch!!

Before Priscilla started in the afternoon, there was a discussion about the uses of symptom based assessments.

Oh, the Kansas book is called Pathways to Recovery. See http://www.socwel.ku.edu/projects/SEG/pathways.html

It is the stories, told and shared, that will prove the concept of Recovery and show its effectiveness.

REE: The Recovery Enhancing Environment Measure. It is intended to be used interactively to develop a real view of the system response.

Priscilla went through the items, including the stages of recovery, Organizational supports for recovery, what aspects of recovery are currently important to the person. There is a page which lists 27 outcomes that mark the evolution of recovery. The markers actually map the stage of recovery.

Priscilla passed out a work-in-progress on the Elements of a Recovery Facilitating System. These items are focused on assessing systems. Priscilla will be holding "ERFS" days for doing the assessment and educating people.

England and Australia are using the REE as the basic instrument for Recovery.

But here in America, the only Federal goals are symptom reduction and utilization reduction.

Priscilla closed by saying that human growth is out of the box and isn't going back in.


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