Background Peer support is being introduced into mental health services internationally,
often in response to workforce policy. Earlier systematic reviews incorporate different …

Introduction: Recovery from serious mental illness has historically not been considered a
likely or even possible outcome. However, a range of evidence suggests the courses of SMI …

Background Automated delivery of psychological therapy using immersive technologies
such as virtual reality (VR) might greatly increase the availability of effective help for patients …

Abstract The international Hearing Voices Movement (HVM) is a prominent mental health
service-user/survivor movement that promotes the needs and perspectives of experts by …

A number of definitions exist for the concept of “recovery” in both the substance use disorder
(SUD) and mental health (MH) fields. Previous attempts to define recovery have not reached …

Background High resource expenditure on acute care is a challenge for mental health
services aiming to focus on supporting recovery, and relapse after an acute crisis episode is …

Background Antipsychotic drugs are usually the first line of treatment for schizophrenia;
however, many patients refuse or discontinue their pharmacological treatment. We aimed to …

Objective Mental health systems internationally have adopted a goal of supporting recovery.
Measurement of the experience of recovery is, therefore, a priority. The aim of this review …

Background: Personal recovery (PR) is a subjective, multidimensional concept, and
quantitative research using PR as an outcome is rapidly increasing. This systematic review …

Objective Knowledge about course of illness can help clinicians to develop effective
interventions and improve treatment outcomes. The goal of this study was to construct …