Collaborative Recovery Model Essay

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In the Mental Health treatment we can distinguish to different approaches to patient treatment/models of treatment , firstly we have a medical model secondary we using person recovery model. Medical model in the mental health, is mostly concentrate on the treatment of the physiological aspect of illness, this model is use at the inpatients admissions, by psychiatrist overall in the clinical /medical settings. There are many definitions of term “Medical Model” suggested that it is a ‘scientific process involving observation, description and differentiation, which moves from recognising and treating symptoms to identifying disease aetiologies and developing specific treatments, some professionals also describe medical model as ‘the predominant Western approach to illness, the medical model drives the …show more content…

The Collaborative Recovery Model (CRM) is a practice model designed to incorporate evidence of practices that have previously assisted people living with enduring mental illness, designed to be consistent with the values of the recovery movement (Developed by the University of Wollongong Illawarra Institute of Mental Health ) The collaborative recovery model takes holistic approach in to the recovery and not only engages with the client, but also engages with the wider support network of professionals and family in order to assure that consumer is supported on the journey to recovery

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