Psychiatric care and education understood from a student perspective: Enhancing competences empowering personal and social recovery.

A biomedical approach dominates and makes it difficult to develop students' personal competences during education in practice and theory vital to the development of personal and social recovery-oriented practices. It is recommended that educators-in practice and in school-accentuate presentness, awareness and creativity as crucial relational capabilities and incorporate this in their teaching and supervision method, supporting the education and formation of the students' (and teachers' and supervisors') personal development processes.