This document describes a wellness model for recovery from mental disorders that focuses on client strengths rather than deficits. It outlines alternative perspectives on disorders, including viewing them as correctable issues impacting functioning rather than permanent illnesses. The wellness model emphasizes optimal functioning, communication between clinicians and patients, and individualized recovery programs over a one-size-fits-all approach. The goal is supporting recovery and remission by improving self-beliefs, disempowering shame and stigma, and generating social accommodation for those experiencing disorders.

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2. A Wellness Model of Recovery-Remission
from Mental Disorder in the 21st Century.
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3. ‘Mental’ Disorder
● Neurosis: term banned by DSM-III in 1980.
● Negatively impacts your emotional
wellbeing and quality of life.
● Mind, body, spirit and emotions working
in concert.
● Mental illness, mental disorder: unacceptable
terms accompanied by shame and social stigma.
● Disorder: correctable inability to function
in a normal or satisfactory manner.

4. Contemporary List of Disorders
Anxiety
Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
Panic Disorder.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Social Anxiety Disorder
Personality DisordersObsessive-Compulsive and
Related Disorders
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.
Paranoid
Schizoid
Schizotypal
Antisocial
Borderline
Histrionic
Narcissistic
Avoidant
Dependent
Obsessive
compulsive
Dramatic
Erratic
Anxious
Fearful
Bizarre
Eccentric
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Hoarding Disorder
Trichotillomania
Excoriation (Skin Picking) Disorder
Substance/Medication-induced
Obsessive-Compulsive & related
Disorder
Obsessive-Compulsive and Related
Disorder due to another medical
condition
Specified & Unspecified Obsessive-
Compulsive & Related Disorders

5. We are responsible for
how we play the hand
we have been given.
We are not responsible
for the cards we have
been dealt.

6. Focus of Disease Model
● Pathology and etiology
● Client deficits and infirmities
● Doctor-patient power relationship
● DSM/APA intractability
● One-size-fits-all recovery programs
● Systemic negativity and pessimism
● General diagnosis over individuality

7. Focus of Wellness Model
● Optimal functioning
● Client strengths and abilities
● Clinician-patient communication
● Emerging research data
● Program integration
● Positive language, attitude, perspective
● Individual personality complexities

8. ● Language and perspective
● Redefining mental illness
● Susceptibility and Onset
● Complementarity
● Doctor-patient power
relationship
Transitional Challenges

9. Wellness ModelDisease Model

10. Benefits of the Wellness Model
● Emphasize solution over problem
● Increase disclosure/recovery
● Refine hostile language
● Improve self-beliefs/image
● Generate social accommodation
● Revise public perspective
● Disempower shame/stigma

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

12. ‘ M e n t a l ’
Historical
crazy, insane
Medical Model
disease, abnormal, deficient
Public Perspective
dangerous, unpredictable,
undesirable
Slang
stupid, dumb, retard

13. Pathography
pathos
suffering
graphy
biography
Pathography is the
history of your suffering.
“a morbid biography”
• • •
Disease Model

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. Avenues of Discovery
(phenomenological)
● Communication
● Auto-narrative
● Therapeutic innovation
● Assimilation and empathy
● Environmental factors
● Wants, needs, aspirations

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