Strategies for Promoting Recovery & Resilience and Implementing Evidence-Based Practices

October 2006 Strategies for Promoting Recovery & Resilience and Implementing Evidence-Based Practices The overarching theme from the literature review and interviews establishes that consumers and their families must shape the design and implementation of recovery and resilience (R/R) principles. If the mental health system should facilitate consumer empowerment and R/R in such a way as to pre-empt consumer choice, e.g., mandating everyone has to have a peer counselor, then the purpose of R/R is defeated. The situation is similar to that of cultural competence, where simply valuing diversity does not translate into expertise on . . .