Lecture 2

Question 1

4 key domains of recover?

Answer 1

1. Hope (what will happen to me?)
2. Identity (Who am I?)
3. Meaning: direct (what has happened?)
   Meaning: indirect (what does this mean for me?)
4. personal responsibility (what can I do?)

Question 2

crucial relationships in recovery narratives?

Answer 2

• higher being/ connection with others
• close relationships
• other MH service users
• specific mental health professionals

Question 3

Aims of recovery oriented assessment

Answer 3

1. promote + validate the development of personal meaning
2. amplify strengths rather than deficits
3. foster personal responsibility rather than passive compliance
4. support the development of a pos. identity rather than illness identity
5. develop hopefulness rather than hopelesness

Question 4

How do you promote + validate the development of personal meaning

Answer 4

1. validate
2. ask open questions on meaning making
3. learn to deal with difficult emotions

Question 5

how can you amplify strengths rather than deficits

Answer 5

1. open question in search of strengths
2. think ‘coping
3. search with the client for internal and external resources

Question 6

how can you foster personal responsibility rather than passive compliance

Answer 6

1. learn to sit back + shut up
2. ask open questions that facilitate agency
   (e.g. what would make a difference in your life?)
3. give suggestions and ask about them

Question 7

how can you support the development of a positivie identity rather than an illness identity

Answer 7

1. investigate your own biases concerning mental illness
2. be curious about what the mental problems mean to the person
3. do not assume it is the same as for you
4. ask open questions on meaning

Question 8

how can we develop hopefulness rather than hopelessness

Answer 8

1. strust us: there is good reason for hope
2. learn to be present (do not go to knowledge/solutions)
3. learn to understand, validate, summarize
4. don’t give “cheap hope”

Question 9

most commonly suicidality is….

Answer 9

1. the wish to escape or get rid of something terrible
2. the feeling that this is not possible: entrapment

Question 10

what is the biggest predictor of suicidal thoughts/ behaviour?

Answer 10

entrapment