The peer-employment-training approach of Recovery Innovations in Arizona

Further Information

For a video, slides and a transcript of Gene Johnson’s recent lecture during a trip to the UK please click here 

For more information on Recovery Innovations please see the website 

An overview of the training programme is given here

For details of the Department of Health’s Expert Patient Programme please click here 

References

Department of Health (DH) (2006) National Evaluation of the pilot phase of the Expert Patient Programme, London: Department of Health.

Hutchinson, D., Anthony, W., Ashcraft, L., Johnson, E. (2006), ‘The Personal and Vocational Impact of Training and Employing People with Psychiatric Disabilities as Providers’, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 29 (3).

Johnson, G. (2009a) ‘Recovery – the US perspective’, presentation to the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, September, please see here 

Johnson, G. (2009b) ‘Recovery – the US perspective’, speech to the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, September, please see here 

Wilson, P. M. (2001) ‘A policy analysis of the Expert Patient in the United Kingdom: self-care as an expression of pastoral power?’ Health and Social Care in the Community, 9(3), 134–142.

Dr. Catherine Needham provided Governance International with this case study on 9 March 2010.