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Making Recovery Real - Learning and training in recovery

Date recorded: 26 February 2009
There is a real desire in Scotland for opportunities around learning and training in recovery. This session offered a chance to learn about and discuss recent developments in learning and training around recovery in Scotland. It features presentations from:
  • Allison Alexander, Napier University
  • Dawn MacKay, Health in Mind
  • Leslie Dickson, Perth and Kinross Council

Recovery training for mental health workers: A national perspective

Allison Alexander, Napier University
This presentation describes the work of a joint NHS Education for Scotland (NES) and Scottish Recovery Network (SRN) project undertaken between 2006 and 2008.  As well as providing the background to the project the presentation focuses on the development of Realising Recovery: A National Framework for Learning and Training in Recovery Focused Practice and the accompanying Realising Recovery Learning Materials.  The presentation also illustrates how this recovery training relates to other national mental health initiatives. Finally the presentation offers some thoughts on the role that education and training can play in bringing about recovery focused practice and will identify other factors that may also need to be present to enable mental health workers, mental health services and people who use mental health services to embrace recovery.



icon Parallel session audio recording: Allison Alexander - Recovery training for mental health workers (19.7 MB)

icon Parallel session presentation: Allison Alexander - Recovery training for mental health workers (108.72 kB)
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ESC and Realising Recovery training: A unique journey
Dawn MacKay, Health in Mind
This presentation focuses on how Health in Mind and Penumbra have developed and delivered a training infrastructure that supports values based and recovery focussed mental health practice, where the ultimate aim is to improve peoples’ experience of using mental health services.  This presentation looks at the unique journey of our core team and the participants - focusing on how the experience built on strengths and maximised opportunities for raising self awareness.



icon Parallel session audio recording: Dawn MacKay - ESC and Realising Recovery training (18.01 MB)

icon Parallel session presentation: Dawn MacKay - ESC and Realising Recovery training (77.35 kB)
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Recovery training in Tayside
Leslie Dickson, Perth and Kinross Council
The presentation focuses mostly on some of the content from the four day recovery training offered in Tayside. It is largely experiential and reflective and aims to enhance self awareness and increase understanding of recovery.



icon Parallel session audio recording: Leslie Dickson - Recovery training in Tayside (17.68 MB)

icon Parallel session presentation: Leslie Dickson - Recovery training in Tayside (126.16 kB)