Mental Health Recovery Narratives and Their Impact on Recipients: Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis.

Caroline YeoKate MorganJoy Llewellyn-BeardsleyAmy RamsayRose McGranahanSteve GillardAda HuiFiona NgJustine SchneiderSusie BoothVanessa PinfoldLarry DavidsonDonna FranklinSimon BradstreetSimone ArbourMike Slade

Published in: Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie (2019)

Mental health recovery narratives can promote recovery. Recovery narratives might be useful for clients with limited access to peers and in online interventions targeted at reducing social isolation in rural or remote locations, but support is needed for the processing of the strong emotions that can arise. Caution is needed for use with specific clinical populations. Protocol registration: Prospero-CRD42018090923.

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