Talk:Recovery psychology/Sum of course

Idea promotion versus Self-promotion and the hypothesis of my research

I understand that self-promotion is not allowed, but what I am writing here on wikiversity is not intended to be about myself, but my ideas. I am unclear if my research off wikiversity can be used here. The position or argument I am taking is that: any college student that studies clinical psychology and is introduced to the recovery model, would ask the same questions or have the same ideas I have. Ideas like:

1. William Anthony in 1991 wrote Basic Assumptions of Recovery Oriented Mental Health System and listed as the very first assumption is that people can or sometimes do recover from psychological disorders with absolutely no professional intervention (So why does the recovery model only speak of professional intervention? Where is the research on recovery without professional intervention?)
2. A picture in a Psychiatric Rehabilitation textbook that speaks of the recovery process shows brain imaging pictures of a “well” twin versus that of a “schizophrenia” twin, then discusses recovery in the context of a service provision or professional intervention. (so what is the biological basis or the brain imaging evidence for recovery?)
3. If anything an organism does is behavior and a person recovers, is recovery a behavior that can be studied?
4. If the President of the U.S. signed an executive order for a national public education campaign on mental health recovery to be established, then it can be assumed that this education campaign creates oppourtunities to obtain higher levels achievement, masters degreees and PhD's in Mental Health Recovery, right? What kind of education does not advance one's ability to finnancially prosper? Does not the person with higher education credentials earn the most money? We are talking about George W. Bush, who signed that executive order, as in a conservative pro-capitalism individual? What is the definition of education from a pro-capitalistic achievement point of view?
5. If all the advances or progressive thinking is liberalistic and/or humanistic and such an oppourtunity arises from an opposite philosophical prespective than should not liberalistic and humanistic thinkers take full advantage in the advancement of their sciences? (New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, The Executive Order, National Education Campaign on Mental Health Recovery, Patient Empowerment, Civil Rights for those with Psychiatric Disabilities)
6. Is not having having a Recovery model and a Medical model, just not more of the same childish bi-partisan politicking?
7. Why are the pharmacuetical companies pushing harder to get people to take more psychotropic medications with the recovery concept being out there now?
8. Would not scientific inquiry in to recovery, serve clinical psychology better than scientific inquiry in to pathology?
9. Is not the general premise of having a clinical psychology, that a person with a disorder, gets treatment, therapy, counseling and rehabilitation services from trained clinical experts to help them recover?
10. Are there any peer support psychologists in the American Psychological Association, or peer support psychiatrists in the American Psychiatry Association?

• So the questions C.Nees asks are from the perspective of saying "I will believe in this course of study as correct information" and then learning another course of study that disagrees; logically these questions would have to be answered.
• As a certified psychiatric rehabilitation practitioner and a member of various professional organizations that support this “recovery model,” I do have some credentials that warrant my claim to expertise. I can prove that any college student studying clinical psychology, if introduced to the recovery model would ask the same questions, by teaching a non-credit course on mental health recovery at either GCC or ASU West, with the school staff enticing clinical psychology students with extra credit, if they attend my presentation and produce a list of unanswered questions or complaints for their instructor. That these questions or compliants will be the same as the list I present the instructor with, before hand. I would only be allowed to use educational materials sanctioned by an academic or a professional authority, therefore not preaching my beliefs, opinions, or argument. My method would be simple I would simply try to tie up all the holes in the recovery paradigm with out ever saying recovery psychology as much as these holes can possibly be patched; while presenting the facts that show what is wrong with clinical psychology from the recovery materials, and attempting to resolve it without saying recovery psychology, is the answer to address these gaps. I predict the results whether or not the students walk away accepting or embracing the recovery concept, that with in a 90-95% accuracy all clinical psychology students will ask the same questions I do, free from any type of indoctrination on my part. --recovery psychologist C.Nees 03:07, 15 April 2008 (UTC)