REFOCUS and ImROC: setting up and evaluating a pro-recovery intervention within mental health services

The abstracts within this symposium will address the challenging issues of how to implement and evaluate interventions for supporting ‘recovery’ in mental health services. The recovery approach is the most influential development in mental health services internationally in the last decade, and has been adopted at the policy level in the UK, the USA and many other countries. Although the ideology of recovery has been adopted widely, the empirical evidence base lags behind. Three of the papers within this symposium report early findings from a large, 5 year research project called „REFOCUS: Developing a recovery…