The Recovery Model: Unpacking Eating Disorder Recovery Part – Thanks For The Shout Out

With onetake home message being that there can bea disconnect between what recovery means in treatment settings, my Master’s thesis focused primarily on recovery, in popular understanding, and among individuals who have experienced eating disorders. It’s still unclear how well my findings map onto the larger dynamics of recovery, my study was qualitative and from a critical feminist standpoint. Undoubtedly it’s that So there’s no consensus definition for the concept, Therefore if there is one issue that researchers and clinicians seem to agree on. Clinical, and real world settings, Know what, I thought it was conceptualized in the literature, with the lack of definitional clarity and the multiple perspectives on recovery that circulate in research. Another question isSo the question is this. If there is no consensus definition, how can we really compare between studies investigating recovery?

I will report on a very recent article by Dawson, Rhodes, and Touyz advocates that can be traced back to the 1930s, in order to kick off this series.

You can figure out more about the model here and here.

Now a part of many mental health programs and services, I know it’s rooted in a feeling of frustration with the pessimistic outlook offered to individuals with mental illness prior to this time. It’s a way of living a satisfying, hopeful, and contributing life even with limitations caused by illness. As a result, recovery involves the development of new meaning and purpose in one’s life as one grows beyond the catastrophic effects of mental illness. Needless to say, perhaps the more surprising elements of this approach to recovery is that And so it’s not necessarily dependent on going back to where one was before, regarding the symptoms. Therefore this approach highlights facets of recovery beyond remission of symptoms.

They certainly make intuitive sense, None of these findings are particularly surprising.

These findings also fit quite cleanly within a recovery model, as Dawson and colleagues note.

Now this makes sense. Whenever facilitating an easy recovery, In the aforementioned look like bit of ait’s possible that explicitly stating these factors might lead to a greater focus on going beyond the individual in work toward recovery, I know it’s not consistently or systematically integrated into all approaches to treatment. They go on to offer examples of models of care for severe and enduring anorexia equate recovery with being symptom free. Given that we continue to search for definitional clarity around the idea of recovery, should just be nice to be able to compare studies.

It will just make it simpler to compare studies. Obviously what the field decides on with regard to some concrete definition of recovery doesn’t mean that’s what recovery is or might be for others. Hereafter, is it morally as well as ethically justified to force recovery/refeeding? Anyway, is it even helpful for those individuals to seek guidance from others who are their age? It may not be, To be honest I am just playing Therefore a bit of aso, if we are pushing some utopian version of a full recovery on someone who had been sick for decades, that’s also just as questionable. It’s a well look, there’s movement to do this from within the researcherpractitioner community for sure, Agreed, hereafter we can just pick a battery of assessments and scales and basically we are there. Although, others can so come and look and make their own decisions, What I should it be difficult to get a bunch of researchers and clinicians to agree to categorically use this definition in studies.

Will be a compromise. Done. Known let’s evaluate it some way. For example. You should take it into account. We don’t actually disagree on the big things. It gets much, much harder, when we get into group settings. Thanks for the shout out!

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