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Mental Illness Self-Management Through Wellness Recovery Action Planning

By: Judith Cook Ph.D. Although the concept of recovery from a mental illness is relatively new (Deegan, 1988), people with mental health difficulties have been self-managing and functioning in the community long before the idea of recovery became popularized (Harding,...

The Power of WRAP as a Transformative Recovery Tool Within Community Mental Health Settings, Toronto, Canada

Over the past two years, following my certification as a WRAP Facilitator at one of Mary Ellen Copeland’s Brattleboro Vermont week-long workshops, I have focussed my energies on introducing WRAP within a variety of community mental health settings in Toronto, Ontario,...

The Development of Recovery and WRAP in the UK

Britain – Piers Allott Background I have been working in and around services for people diagnosed with mental illness since 1966. I have never been comfortable with many of the approaches to people’s distress that I witnessed and for many years searched for...