ReviewCanadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie2014
Recovery and severe mental illness: description and analysis.
Review in Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 110 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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110 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A Systematic Review of the Use of Blogs and Vlogs as Self-Expressors for People with Serious and Common Mental Illness.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2026Pooled it
- A Scoping and Systematic Review of Employment Processes and Outcomes for Young Adults Experiencing Psychosis.Community mental health journal · 2023Pooled it
- Recovery From Severe Mental Health Problems: A Systematic Review of Service User and Informal Caregiver Perspectives.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- A systematic review of components of community-based organisation engagement.Health & social care in the community · 2018Pooled it
- The impact of Duration of Untreated Psychosis on functioning and quality of life over one year of Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC).PloS one · 2025Trial
- An RCT of Virtual Reality Job Interview Training for Individuals With Serious Mental Illness in IPS Supported Employment.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2022Trial
- The CORE study-An adapted mental health experience codesign intervention to improve psychosocial recovery for people with severe mental illness: A stepped wedge cluster randomized-controlled trial.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2021Trial
- Predictors of employment in people with moderate to severe mental illness participating in a randomized controlled trial of Individual Placement and Support (IPS).The International journal of social psychiatry · 2021Trial
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- Thriving in the City: An Urban Living Lab to Facilitate Recovery From Psychosis.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Effectiveness of Recovery Colleges: A Nonrandomised Clinical Trial Across Two Years Using Propensity Score Matching: Efficacité des collèges de rétablissement: essai clinique non randomisé sur deux ans utilisant l'appariement par score de propension.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2026Observational
- The LIFE-ACE Framework of Building Therapeutic Relationships that Support Recovery in Japanese Community Mental Health: A Qualitative Study.Community mental health journal · 2026Article
- Latent profile analysis of resilience among people with serious mental illness.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2026Article
- Oral health and mental health: lived experiences of stigma and discrimination for Australians with mental health conditions.BMC oral health · 2026Article
- Palliative psychiatry through the eyes of psychiatric nurses in a country where palliative psychiatry has not yet emerged: A qualitative study.Palliative & supportive care · 2026Article
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- Harnessing civil society to promote social inclusion of people with severe mental illness.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2026Article
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- Personal recovery in mental health difficulties in people with experience of homelessness: qualitative systematic review.BJPsych open · 2025Review
- Clinical and functioning outcomes during the establishment phase of Ukraine's community mental health teams: a descriptive analysis.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2025Article
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Abstract
The notion of recovery has been embraced by key stakeholders across Canada and elsewhere. This has led to a proliferation of definitions, models, and research on recovery, making it vitally important to examine the data to disentangle the evidence from the rhetoric. In this paper, first we ask, what do people living with severe mental illness (SMI) say about recovery in autobiographical accounts? Second, what do they say about recovery in qualitative studies? Third, from what we have uncovered about recovery, can we learn anything from quantitative studies about proportions of people leading lives of recovery? Finally, can we identify interventions and approaches that may be consistent or inconsistent with the grounded notions of recovery unearthed in this paper? We found that people with mental illness frequently state that recovery is a journey, characterized by a growing sense of agency and autonomy, as well as greater participation in normative activities, such as employment, education, and community life. However, the evidence suggests that most people with SMI still live in a manner inconsistent with recovery; for example, their unemployment rate is over 80%, and they are disproportionately vulnerable to homelessness, stigma, and victimization. Research stemming from rehabilitation science suggests that recovery can be enhanced by various evidence-based services, such as supported employment, as well as by clinical approaches, such as shared decision making and peer support. But these are not routinely available. As such, significant systemic changes are necessary to truly create a recovery-oriented mental health system.
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