Recovery Guides and Tools

Guides

Language

APA General Principles for Reducing Bias
A guide to bias-free language from the American Psychiatric Association that provides general principles for writing about all people and their personal characteristics without bias.

Language and Stigma
From Australia’s Everymind Institute, a helpful chart that summarizes preferred language to use when communicating about mental illness.

Practices & Approaches

Enhancing the Effectiveness of Psychiatric Care and Other Services and Supports: Guidelines for Promoting Recovery Through Choice and Alternatives
The National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery, a national coalition of statewide consumer/survivor organizations and others, released these guidelines to educate people about the values-based needs of individuals with mental health challenges. The guidelines were developed by a diverse group of people with the lived experience of mental health recovery from across the United States.