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Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Conference Report - Recovery: Patients, Families, Communities
October 11-14, 2007; New Orleans, Louisiana
Posted 12/28/2007




The theme of the 2007 Institute on Psychiatric Services annual conference was "Recovery: Patients, Families, Communities." In this conference report, a workshop, a lecture, and a symposium are summarized, each highlighting the increasingly discussed topic of recovery -- a subject that originated from the field of addictions and has taken hold in many areas of psychiatry. As applied to other areas of mental health (and illness), the recovery paradigm expands considerably from a simpler concept of remission of symptoms and change in behaviors.
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