This Month's Highlights.

摘要

Picturing Recovery The recovery model is a major force shaping services, research, and policy. The main tenet is that people can overcome the often shattering consequences of serious mental illness and create fulfilling lives. Conceptual frameworks of recovery have been detailed, and researchers sometimes argue over definitional nuances. But what does recovery actually look like? This month's lead article presents some photographs. The pictures were taken by participants in a study using photovoice, a research approach in which a group of people use cameras to document their daily realities and create narratives about them to promote dialog and inform social action. The study, which was conducted by Leopoldo J. Cabassa, Ph.D., and colleagues at two supported housing agencies in New York City, recruited people with serious mental illness and a history of substance abuse and homelessness. Over six weeks, photo-voice groups came together for 90-minute sessions to present and discuss photographs they had taken to document what recovery meant to them. When the groups ended, the authors used a number of analytic techniques to tease out recovery themes. Being able to provide support to others was one. An online appendix presents two pictures and accompanying narratives (page 837).