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Articles

The Evolution of Self-Determination for People with Psychotic Disorders

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Pages 71-87 | Received 07 Oct 2022, Accepted 01 Apr 2023, Published online: 26 Jul 2023
 

ABSTRACT

The history of the recovery movement began with a pushback against treatment, and the philosophies that it was founded upon still have relevant applications to contemporary social work practice. Financial aspects of service provision for people with serious mental illnesses have enabled other actors in the medical model of psychosis treatment to benefit, while disempowering and dehumanizing the consumers of those services. Since then, other movements like Psychopolitics and the Mad Movement have helped empower psychosis survivors to advocate for their right to self-determination amid the epistemological pressure to identify as disabled. Social workers would like to believe that the field has moved beyond the philosophies that perpetuated institutionalization of people with serious mental illnesses. Contemporary examples, however, reveal how social services in the US maintain the status quo of sanism for psychosis survivors.

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Patricia R. Turner

Patricia R. Turner is a graduate research assistant and doctoral student at the School of Social Work at Arizona State University. She researches psychosocial approaches to psychosis.

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