The recovery education center: an integrated health promotion and wellness program.

TOPIC

This brief report describes a recovery education program that is designed to develop health as a foundation for recovery from psychiatric illnesses.

PURPOSE

Using readiness to change theory, health promotion, and psychiatric rehabilitation processes that are bundled in an adult education model of service, participants learn the knowledge, skills, and supports they want and need to increase their domains of wellness that will support their recovery.

SOURCES USED

Author's relevant knowledge and citations of health and behavioral health evidence.

CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE

Health promotion that is delivered in a healthy environment enhances people's quality of life, promotes readiness for role change and in the end, works to ensure that people with mental illnesses have a right to optimal health. To support rehabilitation and recovery, practitioners are encouraged to review this program model and select elements described to replicate in various mental health settings.