Recovery‐oriented practice has become the dominant paradigm of practice in mental health
services internationally. The exception is hospital‐based mental health services where the …

Objective: Implementation of recovery-oriented practice has proven to be challenging, and
little is known about the extent to which recovery-oriented principles are integrated into …

National mental health policies accentuate the importance of having positive attitudes, skills,
and knowledge among mental health professionals to facilitate recovery‐oriented practices …

Low numbers of hospital-based psychiatric beds create problems for people with severe
mental illness (SMI), when they face extended emergency department (ED) waits, higher …

Inpatient psychiatric care requires a balance between working with consumers' priorities and
goals, managing expectations of the community, legal, professional and service …

Based upon academic and clinical experience from Denmark, this article aims to highlight
international research-based knowledge concerning challenging aspects about the …

Offering mental health treatment in line with a recovery‐oriented practice has become an
objective in the mental health services in many countries. However, applying recovery …

Background Internationally, an increasing proportion of emergency department visits are
mental health related. Concurrently, psychiatric wards are often occupied above capacity …

Objective Criteria for psychiatric hospitalization have undergone marked changes. Efforts to
limit length-of-hospitalization risk greater morbidity at discharge and increased needs for …

Mental health recovery is an enabling process encouraging consumers to live a productive
life, notwithstanding the presence of debilitating symptoms of illness. The recovery model …