Personal recovery Chapter 9

Question 1

Name, define and explain the 4 tasks of personal recovery

Answer 1

The four tasks of personal recovery
1. Developing a positive identity (1): developing the ability to differentiate self (me)
from the diagnosis and illness experience (it).(1)
2. Framing the mental illness (1): developing a personally satisfactory meaning to frame
the experience which professionals would understand as mental illness (making sense
of the experience as part of the person but not as the whole person) (1)
3. Self-managing the mental illness(1): involves the transition from being clinically
managed to taking personal responsibility through self-management. It means being
responsible for your own well-being (including seeking help). (1)
4. Developing socially valued roles (1): The acquisition of previous, modified or new
valued social roles. There are personally and socially valued roles. (1)