The Path to Mental Health Recovery: A Comprehensive Approach for Understanding and Transformation

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Kim Jørgensen

The Path to Mental Health Recovery

A Comprehensive Approach for Understanding and Transformation

Kim Jørgensen

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Routledge
06 November 2025

Care of the mentally ill; Medical sociology; Psychiatry; Psychotherapy; Psychiatric nursing

This book explores what we mean by recovery in mental health, providing a deeper, evidence-based understanding of the concept. It amplifies the voices of users and families and equips practitioners with the necessary knowledge and language to engage in recovery-oriented practice.

Recovery is a prominent term in mental health practice, but the word conceals multiple meanings, including biomedical, social tool, and humanistic perspectives.

This book exposes this diversity in interpretation, exploring the foundational psychosocial understanding of recovery, contrasting it with the psycho-political concept, and offering critical insights and actionable strategies to integrate these perspectives into mental health practice, all grounded in empirical examples and theoretical perspectives.

This thoughtful book looks at how theory and research around recovery can be moved into practice. It is suitable for students and practitioners in mental health from a range of fields, including nursing, occupational therapy, anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, and family therapy.

Edited by: Kim Jørgensen
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032786926
ISBN 10: 1032786922
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 06 November 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

1: Reconsidering 'Recovery': A Paradigm Shift in Mental Healthcare and Society, 2. Political Dynamics and User Engagement in Mental Health Practice towards Recovery, 3. Interpreting 'Recovery': Divergent Perspectives in Mental Healthcare, 4. Clinical recovery one perspective moving beyond mental health problems, 5. Human rights, Open Dialogue and Relational Recovery - a revolutionary approach in mental health?, 6. Implementing Recovery in Mental Health: From Treatment to Transformation, 7. Peer Support Workers: Pioneering a Recovery-Centric Approach, 8. Utilizing digital technologies to create new approaches to treatment and avenues for communication with individuals receiving mental health care at home, 9. Understanding the significance of family and social support in the recovery journey, 10. Using Co-operative Inquiry to develop a Recovery-Focused and Inclusive Methodology in Mental Health Care

Kim Jørgensen is associate professor at Faculty of Health Sciences,Department of Nursing and Health Promotion Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway and Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Health Services Research User Perspectives and Community-Based Initiatives, University of Southern Denmark (SDU). He works across Denmark and Norway on recovery, cross-sector collaboration, and user participation in mental health services.