10 Fundamental Components of Recovery
Self-Direction: Consumers lead, control, exercise choice over, and determine their own path of recovery.
Individualized and Person-Centered: There are multiple pathways to recovery based on an individual’s unique strengths and needs, preferences, and experiences (including past trauma).
Empowerment: Consumers have the authority to choose from a range of options and to participate in all decisions—including the allocation of resources—that will affect their lives.
Holistic: Recovery encompasses an individual’s whole life, including mind, body, spirit, and community.
Non-Linear: Recovery is not a step-by-step process but one based on continual growth, occasional setbacks, and learning from experience.
Strengths-Based: Recovery focuses on valuing and building on the multiple capacities, resiliencies, talents, coping abilities, and inherent worth of individuals.
Peer Support: Mutual support—including the sharing of experiential knowledge and skills and social learning—plays an invaluable role in recovery.
Respect: Community, systems, and societal acceptance and appreciation of consumers —including protecting their rights and eliminating discrimination and stigma—are crucial in achieving recovery.
Responsibility: Consumers have a personal responsibility for their own self-care and journeys of recovery.
Hope: Recovery provides the essential and motivating message of a better future— that people can and do overcome the barriers and obstacles that confront them.
National Consensus Statement on Mental Health Recovery, SAMHSA
http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/publications/allpubs/sma05-4129/
