An initial approach to measuring and conceptualizing recovery attitudes is proposed in this article, as well as suggestions to help identify interventions that promote the recovery orientation and help to advance recovery attitudes.

Resnick, Sandra G., Fontana, Alan, Lehman, Anthony F., & Rosenheck, Robert A. (2005). An Empirical Conceptualization of the recovery orientation. Schizophrenia Research, 75(1). 119-128.

In this paper qualitative research on recovery from schizophrenia is reviewed and a review on how persons' daily activities and experiences reflect mechanisms of recovery of the self is summarized.

David J. Sells, David A Stayner, & Larry Davidson. (2004). Recovering the Self in Schizophrenia: An Integrative Review of Qualitative Studies. Psychiatric Quarterly, 75(1), 87-97.

The RIFE Grants Program offers funding to individuals in recovery from mental health and substance abuse problems for innovative projects to help them take steps toward achieving their life aspirations.

Tracy, Kathlene, Weingarten, Richard, Mattison, Edward, Piselli, Alessandra, et al. (2004). Moving Beyond Illness to Recovery: The Recovery Is For Everyone Grants Program (RIFE). Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 28(2), 129-135.

This article contends that the values and beliefs of the consumer-survivor recovery movement (not the medical model) offer social workers a more promising perspective from which to practice. Implications for direct practice, administration, policymaking, education, and research are also discussed.

Carpenter, J. (2002). Mental health recovery paradigm: Implications for social work. Health and Social Work, 27(2), 86-94.

This article discusses how psychiatric services often emphasize maintenance rather than recovery, and many survivors report that receiving a psychiatric label bas been severely detrimental to their efforts to lead a worthwhile and enjoyable life.

Turner-Crowson, J., Wallcraft, J. (2002). The Recovery Vision for Mental Health Services and Research: A British Perspective. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 25(3), 245-254.

The authors suggest the idea that, due to treatment of serious mental illnesses, the recovery model is incompatible with any form of mandatory treatment is not so.

Munetz, M. & Frese, F. (2001). Getting ready for recovery: Reconciling mandatory treatment with the recovery vision. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 25(1), 35-42.

The implementation of the recovery model was studied in three states, Vermont, Wisconsin and Nebraska. Similar patterns were found and key steps identified for policy makers to follow in order to develop and implement a mental health recovery model successfully.

Jacobson, N. & Curtis, L. (2000). Recovery as a policy in mental health services: Strategies emerging from the states. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 23(4) 333-341.

This article describes how Community Mental Health Centers can facilitate recovery. First person accounts of recovery portray a process which entails developing hope, taking personal responsibility for health, and building a broad sense of self that is not illness-dominated.

Torrey, W. C. & Wyzik, P. (2000). The Recovery Vision as a Service Improvement Guide for Community Mental Health Center Providers. Community Mental Health Journal, 36(2), 209-216.

The article identifies four questions for professionals to be aware of when working with individuals with mental illness.

Spaniol, L., & Gagne, C., et al. (1997). Recovery from serious mental illness: What it is and how to assist people in their recovery. Continuum, 4(4), 3-15.