Perceptions and understanding of mental health recovery for service users, carers, and service providers: A South African perspective.

The identified themes were not mutually exclusive-overlap is inevitable when describing personal recovery. These results and definition are informing the second phase of the overall study-developing a measure of personal mental health recovery for the South African context. The results can contribute to the wider clinical, academic and governmental comprehension of recovery, assist in the obtaining or retaining of funding for local recovery initiatives, and hopefully be useful for service users to understand their own process of recovery better and to be able to move along in that process. We recommend replicating the study and investigating recovery-conducive environments in South Africa with service users. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).