SUMMARY - Recovery-Oriented Services
A woman walks into a psychiatric facility where staff ask about her goals, what she wants from life, what recovery means to her. They talk about building on her strengths, supporting her choices, helping her find meaning. A decade earlier, she had been in a facility where staff talked about her symptoms, her medication compliance, her diagnosis. No one asked what she wanted. The difference between these encounters reflects a transformation in how mental health services understand their purpose.