The journey of recovery: moving through tokenism to meaningful change

Mike Slade Recovery is emerging as the guiding vision for mental health services internationally. The term „recovery“ has two meanings. First, clinical recovery is an idea derived from professional expertise, and involves symptom remission, restoration of social functioning, and the development of social networks. A key scientific contribution of clinical recovery is that it can be assessed by external observers, allowing epidemiological research into recovery rates. These studies show that, over the long term (20 years), more than half of people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and half of people with a diagno…