An Example of a Model for Practicing Community Mental Health Nursing: Recovery

• Main Author: Beyhan Bag
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Psikiyatride Güncel Yaklaşımlar 2018-12-01
• Series: Psikiyatride Guncel Yaklasimlar
• Subjects: Community mental health; nursing; Recovery
• Online Access: http://www.psikguncel.org/archives/vol10/no4/cap_10_04_06_en.pdf

There are some uncertainties about the services that will be offered to patients with mental disorders in the community mental health centers opened in our country. One-fourth of the employees in these centers are nurses. This is an important figure that could affect the quality of the services offered. In order to improve the quality of the services offered, nurses need models that can be applied in the field. In this sense, “Recovery” model, is a model that is quite suitable for the community mental health services which centers the individual as a part of its basic philosophy. The aim of this study is to define the “Recovery” model and to discuss it as model for the treatment and maintenance of patients by nurses working in community mental health centers.