The final report of The President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health—Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America provided six goals to transform the nation’s mental health system with an overall goal of recovery and a vision to improve the quality of mental health services and access to care.
According to the Commission, successful transformation of the mental health system rests on two principles:
- Services and treatment must be consumer and family centered giving consumers real choices about their providers and treatment options
- Care focused on facilitating recovery, building resilience and not just managing symptoms
APNA has been chosen as one of five national participants in a SAMHSA initiative to transform the concepts of recovery from a set of beliefs to recovery-oriented nursing practices. As part of this five-year project, psychiatric nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and peer specialists will research current activities in recovery-oriented care and develop strategies on how best to implement recovery components into mental health provider education and practice.
APNA will collaborate with consumers and psychiatric mental health nursing leaders to promote recovery and to develop curriculum and training materials to increase nursing knowledge of recovery-oriented care and how it translates into nursing practice.
APNA Recovery to Practice Task Force Goals for Year 1
- Determine the extent of the use of recovery principles in PMH nursing practice and education.
- Identify the barriers in implementing recovery-oriented practices and education/training.
- Specify the opportunities in practice and education that support the shift from an illness-centered paradigm to a person-centered approach.
- Identify learning needs and strategies that will guide the development of curricular materials.
- Review other public domain curricula focused on recovery-oriented workforce development such as developed by the National Association of Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) and Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE).
- Develop a plan for curriculum development for Years 02 and 03.
Click here for a list of task force members.
Click here for Recovery Resources.
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