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Download Download Journal of Recovery in Mental Health Vol. 4 No. 1 Winter 2020 ISSN: 2371-2376 Vol. 4 No. 1 Winter 2020 Toronto Cityscape by artist, Mike Simon In some ways, much of 2020 has felt like the season of winter. This winter scene by lived experience artist, Mike Simon, serves to remind us that even dark times have beauty and vibrancy. Mike's work is available for purchase and all proceeds are donated to mental health communities. EDITORIAL Focussing on Recovery Simone Arbour, Holly Harris 1-3 PDF HTML ORIGINAL RESEARCH Use of experiential knowledge by mental health professionals and its contribution to recovery: Literature review Simona Karbouniaris, Tineke Abma, Jean-Pierre Wilken, Alie Weerman 4-19 PDF HTML Journal of Recovery in Mental Health Vol. 4 No. 1 Winter 2020 ISSN: 2371-2376 Narrow Normality or Inadequate Services? Supporting Citizenship for Young Adults in Challenging Situations Randi Semb, Wenche Bekken, Marit Borg 20-34 PDF HTML Social Support and Relational Recovery in the Age of Individualism A Qualitative Study Exploring Barriers and Possibilities for Social Support in Mental Health Work Knut Ivar Bjørlykhaug, Rose-Marie Bank, Bengt Karlsson 35-55 PDF HTML CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS Refocus on Recovery Canada 2020 Refocus on Recovery Canada 2020 56-70 PDF HTML Journal of Recovery in Mental Health Vol. 4 No. 1 Winter 2020 ISSN: 2371-2376 1 Focussing on Recovery Arbour, Simone1 Harris, Holly1 1 Research and Academics Department, Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, Whitby, Canada This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. In selecting the cover art for this issue of the journal, the Toronto Skyline, by Mike Simon jumped out at as especially fitting. In 2020, for the first time, a conference devoted to personal recovery was to launch in Toronto, Canada. With guidance and input from conference organizers in Nottingham United Kingdom, Refocus on Recovery Canada was the collective vision of the Mental Health Commission of Canada, the Canadian Mental Health Association and Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences. This conference was set to bring together researchers, practitioners and persons with lived experience who are passionate about personal recovery and transforming the Canadian mental healthcare landscape. Unfortunately, this event did not come to pass given the global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although this important event was not held this year, the Journal of Recovery in Mental Health is pleased to publish a collection of abstracts that were to comprise the conference program. The Refocus on Recovery Canada conference planning committee also made the decision not to offer the event virtually as it felt collectively that much is gained by sharing not only views with one another but also a common space. The connections made either formally or in passing at events that bring together service users, providers and families can be invaluable in helping to gain an understanding of how to advance recovery and recovery-oriented practice in Canada – which is gaining traction. Within Canada, Toronto has historically served as home to many forward thinkers in terms of advancing recovery. For example, hospitals in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area were hosts to the first recovery colleges in Canada. In addition, Mad Studies began at Ryerson University – based in Toronto. As Toronto was set to launch this important event this year, it may be of value to pause, and briefly reflect on why bringing together service users, providers and families together is import to advance the recovery agenda. Examples of recovery-oriented practice date back centuries (Carron & Saad, 2012). For example, 200 years ago in a Paris asylum, a man became the governor of a hospital where he himself had been a patient. One of his key directives was to hire recovered patients as the chief physician found they seemed to be kind and against cruelty. By Corresponding Author: Arbour, Simone. Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences. 700 Gordon Street, Whitby, ON, Canada L1N 5S9 Email: [email protected] Journal of Recovery in Mental Health Vol. 4 No. 1 Winter 2020 ISSN: 2371-2376 2 pursuing and implementing this directive, this team had incorporated an early version of recovery-oriented practice and peer support as part of these former patients’ roles. The chief physician’s treatment approach embraced the therapeutic properties of physical activity, fresh air, connection, and conversation amongst patients (Carron & Saad, 2014). Evidently, recovery-oriented practice was used as a means to initiate system reform and improve the treatment of persons who were neurodivergent or experiencing mental distress. Since then, the movement has spread and recovery has become a global phenomenon. This movement has largely been led by consumer/survivors/ex-patients who have come together in a variety of formats to promote and guide the recovery movement. Toronto has been and continues to be a hub for recovery activism, research, and practice. The Greater Toronto Area is home to many activists’ groups and mental healthcare facilities that have and continue to make significant strides in promoting recovery-oriented practice and challenging stigma and discrimination. With a large focus on collaboration between professionals and those with lived-experience in pursuit of education and recovery-oriented practice, programming, and research, the voices of Toronto’s recovery movement are being heard on a global scale. In 2009, a group of consumer/survivors/ex-patients engaged in dialogue about the status and meaning of the recovery movement in Toronto (Mental Health “Recovery” Study Working Group, 2009). Through their discussions, they identified that there are three prominent ways in which recovery is seen by consumer/survivors/ex-patients in Toronto. First, recovery is seen as “a personal journey” involving self esteem and positive thinking to achieve hope (Mental Health “Recovery” Study Working Group, 2009, p.3). Recovery can also be conceptualized as a “as a social process” in which people require tangible resources such as “jobs, income, housing, safety and education” (Mental Health “Recovery” Study Working Group, 2009, p.3). Many also see recovery as a critique of structures that have and, in some cases, continue to harm those who have been psychiatrized such as “medicine/psychiatry, health care, medication/drugs, and the police” (Mental Health “Recovery” Study Working Group, 2009, p.3). This argument promotes the idea that the recovery movement must be recovered from “its increasing professionalization” (Mental Health “Recovery” Study Working Group, 2009, p.3). With so many prominent activists, advocates, lived-experience voices, researchers, and professionals, Toronto’s mental health community has the potential to continue to make significant reform in the mental health system and also guide the recovery movement back to its roots in terms of being driven by consumer/survivors/and ex-patients. Refocus on Recovery Canada in 2020 would have further established Toronto’s status as a recovery hot-spot. Although the pandemic has sidelined the opportunity for those of us passionate about mental health to come together in person this year, there is no doubt that Refocus on Recovery Canada is on the horizon. When it is launched, there will likely be sharing of research and experiences that further our understanding of the power of recovery, and hope. This is especially important considering the impacts that these challenging times are having on mental health. The mental health community in Journal of Recovery in Mental Health Vol. 4 No. 1 Winter 2020 ISSN: 2371-2376 3 Toronto, Canada and abroad will likely have much to share about how we continue to share, learn and connect even when we are physically distancing. At this time, we invite manuscripts for our upcoming issue, to be published in June, 2021. As always, we welcome original research, lived experience manuscripts as well as viewpoints and opinions that shape our understanding of recovery and recovery- oriented practice. References 1. Carron, M. A., and H. Saad, Treatment of the mentally ill in the pre-moral and moral era: A brief report. Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry, 2012. 24(1): p. 1. 2. Mental health ‘recovery’: Users and refusers. Mental Health Recovery Study Working Group, 2012. Available from https://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Mental_Health- _Recovery.pdf Journal of Recovery in Mental Health Vol. 4 No. 1 Winter 2020 ISSN: 2371-2376 4 Use of experiential knowledge by mental health professionals and its contribution to recovery: literature review Karbouniaris, Simone1 Abma, Tineke2 Wilken, Jean Pierre3 Weerman, Alie4 1 Research centre for Social Innovation, HU University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands / Department of Medical Humanities of Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam 2 Department of Medical Humanities of Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam / Leyden Academy on vitality and ageing, Leiden, The Netherlands 3 Research centre for Social Innovation, HU University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht The Netherlands 4 Research group Mental health & Society, University of applied sciences Windesheim, Zwolle, The Netherlands This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. KEYWORDS Mental Health professionals, Experiential knowledge, Users recovery ABSTRACT Objective: This article explores the use of experiential knowledge by traditional mental health professionals and the possible
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