Chapter 1: Recovery

Question 1

What is recovery?

Answer 1

Recovery is a process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential.
Recovery is a unique and deeply personal experience that is driven by the search for active control, or agency, over one’s life.

Question 2

What is recovery guided by?

Answer 2

The individual’s dreams and goals, strengths, gifts, and skills which can help create a plan to pursue occupations that matter.

Question 3

What are SAMHSA’s 4 dimensions that support recovery?

Answer 3

Health – overcoming or managing one’s diseases or symptoms and making informed, healthy choices that support physical and emotional well-being.
Home – a stable and safe place to live.
Purpose – allows someone to reach his or her full potential through meaningful daily activities.
Community – relationships and social networks that provide support, friendship, love, and hope.
- Community integration includes the ways the individual engages, participates in, and gives back to the community.

Question 4

What are SAMHSA’s 10 guiding principles of recovery?

Answer 4

Hope
Person-driven
Many pathways
Holistic
Peer support
Relational
Culture
Addresses trauma
Strengths/responsibility
Respect

Question 5

How can OTPs facilitate recovery?

Answer 5

Teaching:
- home management skills
- illness management tools
- coping skills

Question 6

What is the lived experience?

Answer 6

Provides a first-hand account based on personal experience.
It can help other learn more about the lives of those living with mental health and/or substance use challenges.
It’s important in building a community understanding of recovery.

Question 7

OT and recovery

Answer 7

Health through engagement in occupations
Environments that support occupational choices
Meaningful occupations
Social participation and co-occupation

Question 8

What is recovery to practice?

Answer 8

A technical assistance approach to build recovery-oriented practices among mental health and substance use practitioners.
It has helped shape the behavioral health workforce through creating training materials, providing webinars, and promoting ongoing recovery-driven practice development.

Question 9

What happened after the passage of the Affordable Care Act?

Answer 9

The passage of the Affordable Care Act moved the system toward an integrated model of care that serves behavioral and physical health needs.

Question 10

What does the Protecting Access to Medicare Act include?

Answer 10

The Protecting Access to Medicare Act included provisions from the Excellence in Mental Health Act that called for demonstration programs aimed at increasing the quality of and expanding access to mental health and substance use treatment.

Question 11

What did the Excellence in Mental Health Act create?

Answer 11

The Excellence in Mental Health Act created the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) demonstration program.