The document presents a model for mental health recovery and remission based on wellness rather than disease. It discusses evolving from viewing mental illnesses as diseases or disorders to recognizing them as normal "psychophysiological malfunctions" impacted by mind, body, spirit, and emotions. The model proposes a dual approach integrating positive psychology and cognitive behavioral therapy with other traditional and non-traditional methods tailored to each individual's unique personality and needs.

1. A Wellness Model of Recovery-Remission
from Mental Illness in the 21st Century.
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2. Transforming Recovery

3. Evolving fromthe disease model to the
wellness model of mental health recovery.
Empowerment, wellbeing, and
appreciation for the intrinsic value
and potential of humankind.

4. Psychophysiological Malfunction
● Neurosis: term banned by DSM-III in 1980.
● Negatively impacts your emotional
wellbeing and quality of life.
● Psychophysiological: mind, body, spirit and
emotions working in concert.
● Mental illness, mental disorder: unacceptable
terms accompanied by shame and social stigma.
● Malfunction: correctable inability to function
in a normal or satisfactory manner.

6. Psychophysiological Malfunctions (PPMs)
Anxiety
Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
(5 types)
Panic Disorder.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Social Anxiety Disorder
Personality Disorders
Self-esteem Issues
Depression
Major Depressive Disorder
Persistent Depressive Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
Postpartum Depression
Psychotic Depression
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Disruptive mood dysregulation
disorder
Atypical Depression
Severity may recommend medical intervention.
Motivational Issues
Paranoid
Schizoid
Schizotypal
Antisocial
Histrionic
Narcissistic
Avoidant
Dependent
Obsessive
compulsive
Emotional
Impulsive
Anxious
Suspicious

7. Mind, Body, Sprit, and Emotions
Working in Concert
A near collision
on the freeway.
BodyMind
Emotions
Self-awareness: mortality.
Love of family.
Self-reliance: I avoided being hit.
Self-worth: I’m alive for a reason.
Hands clammy .
Restricted breathing.
Heart palpitations.
Excessive perspiration.
Anger at the other driver.
Joy in safety.
Pride in driving ability.
Resentment of victimization.
Spirit
I almost died.
Did anyone see that?
I’m going to be late.
Am I safe here?

8. YMCA of High Point
You did not make it happen;
it happened to you.
You were likely infected
during adolescence.
Child/Adolescent Exploitation
● detachment ● abuse ● abandonment
● physical ● sexual ● emotional
Onset
It’s Not Your Fault!

9. The inability to satisfy certain
needs causes a disruption in
natural human development.
Child/Adolescent Exploitation
♦ detachment/abuse/abandonment ♦
♦ physical/sexual/emotional ♦

10. ● 15 million U.S. adults currently
experience its depression.
● 40 million U.S. adults currently
experience anxiety disorders.
● Anxiety/depression is the
primary cause of a 56%
increase in adolescent suicide.
● 13 million U.S. adolescents are
impacted by anxiety disorders.
● 5 million experience major
depression.

11. You are responsible for
how you play the hand
you have been given.
You are not responsible
for the cards you have
been dealt.

12. We have been dealt the teachings, opinions,
beliefs, and influences of our caregivers,
instructors, ministers, doctors, and colleagues.
Discard two: We get the guilt from our caregivers,
the sins of our fathers, or the errors of our prior
incarnations. The deck is stacked!
We did not deal ourselves those cards; we were
not even allowed to shuffle the deck.
But it is the hand we are holding. And it is a full
house.
We alone are responsible for how we play our
hand.

13. Why We Resist Recovery
● Personal Baggage
● Public Opinion
● Media Representations
● Visibility
● Diagnosis
● Undesirability
● Natural Aversion to Change
IntegralandInterdependent

14. The Ineffectiveness of the
One-Size-Fits-All Approach
● Personal recovery is an individual process.
● Cannot address the nuanced and unique
dynamics of the individual personality.
● There is no one right way to do or
experience recovery.
● The multiplicities of the personality
demands multiple approaches.
● Analysis and recovery are linked but
separate processes.

15. Personality
● The aggregate of every stimulus
experienced by you in your lifetime.
● Fixed by core beliefs; fluid by
intermediate beliefs.
● Unique, one-of-a-kind, inimitable.
● Developed by myriad genetic, social,
cultural, and environmental influences.
● Your current being and your expression
of that being.

16. Dual Approach
A multimethod approach to
individual recovery, integrating
the optimum functioning of
positive psychology with CBT's
behavior modification, neural
restructuring, and supported
and nontraditional methods.
A multimethod quantitative
and qualitative psychological
analysis of the character
strengths that generate the
motivation and persistence/
perseverance of an individual
towards achieving a goal.
Create the Solution
ReChanneling
Establish the Problem
Psychobiography

17. Diagnosis
1906–2020: Eminent Extraordinary.
An accomplished individual
who has achieved historical
or social recognition.
2020: Ordinary Extraordinary
An individual who has
achieved a noteworthy
personal milestone.
Psychobiography
Sigmund Freud

18. Establishing the Problem (Diagnosis)
Quantitative Research
Empirical investigations of observable and
measurable variables.
Testing theory, predicting and illustrating
outcomes
Setting up research strategies, surveys,
correlational studies.
Qualitative Research
Phenomenological examination of culture,
human behavior, belief systems, concepts.
Consideration of environment, ethnicity,
sex, education, socio-economic status,
Interviews, open-ended questions, opinion
research.
Case Study
Studying the development of character
traits that generate the subject's
motivation towards a noteworthy goal.
Data Collection
Letters, diaries, interviews
clinical and archival records,
and other evidence.
History
Investigating the development of
knowledge and thought that motivate
the subject's philosophy and action.
Hermeneutics
How philosophic, spiritual, esoteric
and religious inquiry facilitated the
subject’s ethos and activities
Narrative
The story that ties the elements into
a cohesive and interesting study.
Autobiography, biography, hearsay.

19. Integrative Solutions
Positive Psychology
Adjuncts traditional psychology.
Optimal human functioning.
Wellness over pathography.
Cognitive-Behavioral
Thought & behavior modification.
Replaces irrational self-beliefs with
positive rational ones.
Healthy Philautia
Restoring self-esteem and positive
self-qualities disrupted by lacuna
in natural human development
Neural Restructuring
Restoring positivity via repetitive
self-affirmations. What has been
learned can be unlearned.
Abhidharma
Eightfold Path (right choice).
Embracing our inherent journey
to goodness and excellence.
Emotional Method
Retrieval, retention, and mastery.
Understanding emotion overlap.
Control rather than be controlled.
Other supportive traditional and nontraditional approaches

20. Cognitive Behavioral
Therapy
● One-size-fits-all approach cannot fully
address the complexities of the
individual personality
● Thought and behavior modification.
● Replaces irrational thought and
behavior with rational ones.
● Highly successful when combined with
neural restructuring & other integrations.
● Subject of severe criticism for ineffectiveness.
CBT pioneer, Aaron T. Beck

21. Positive Psychology
● Optimum human functioning
● Identify character strengths that
generate motivation & persistence
● Evidence-based interventions to
improve well-being.
● PP 2.0: Balanced, meaning-centered,
holistic perspective.
● Complements traditional
psychology
Martin Seligman, “father of positive psychology”

22. Our brain learns at an
incredibly accelerated rate.
Power of word, thought,
and behavior is life-altering.
Correlated change in
behavior and perspective
What has been learned
can be unlearned.
Hebbian Learning

23. Positive Self-Qualities
● Self-esteem: the custodian of our
intrinsic positive self-qualities
Healthy
● Addresses deficits of positive self-
qualities caused by disruption in
natural human development.
● A fusion of programs focused on
issues of self-esteem.
● One of the most indispensable
requirements of life - Aristotle
● Self -reliance, -resilience, -worth,
-efficacy, -compassion, -love . . .

24. ● Emotion retrieval, retention, and control.
● Decompartmentalize memories of
wellbeing and achievement.
The Method of Emotional
Control
● Transform unhealthy emotions into
corresponding healthy ones.
● Multiple reactions to every situation
– choose wisely.
● Control your emotions; don’t allow
them to control you.Constantin Stanislavski

25. Abhidharma
● Psychology of optimum functioning,
not religion.
● The Eightfold Path for self-esteem
and emotional wellbeing.
● Right understanding, thought,
speech, action, livelihood, effort,
mindfulness, and concentration.
● The ‘Ninth’ Path: Right choice..
● Choose instinctually.

26. If you know neither the
enemy nor yourself, you will
succumb in every
battle.
If you know yourself but not
the enemy, for every victory
gained you will also suffer a
defeat.
If you know the enemy and
know yourself, you need not
fear the result of a hundred
battles.
Know yourself; know your PPM