Applying Strengths Model principles to build a rural community-based mental health support service and achieve recovery outcomes.

CONCLUSIONS: Strengths-based recovery services offered by a rural PHaMs service can assist Australians with severe mental illness to achieve meaningful gains towards recovery. Furthermore, a Strengths Model approach to service development and operations – one that recognises individual abilities and prizes interpersonal relationships and teamwork – can maximise the potential of local human and other resources, and serve as a solution to resolving apparent service gaps and perceived deficits in rural and regional areas. PMID: 29385811 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Rural Remote Health - Category: Rural Health Authors: Tags: Rural Remote Health Source Type: research