The authors discuss the concept of recovery from psychiatric disorders and then review research on illness management and professional-based programs for helping people manage their mental illness.

Kilbourne, Amy M., Cornelius, Jack R., Han, Xiaoyan, & Haas, Gretchen L. (2005). General-Medical Conditions in Older Patients with Serious Mental Illness. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 13(3), 250-154.

People with serious mental illness who were participating in the baseline interview for a multistate study on consumer-operated services completed the Recovery Assessment Scale (RAS). Results of exploratory and subsequent confirmatory factor analyses of the RAS yielded five factors; regression analyses showed that these five factors were uniquely related to the additional constructs assessed in the study.

Corrigan, P.W., Salzer, M., Ralph, R., Sangster, Y., and Kreck, L. (2004). Examining the factor structure of the Recovery Assessment Scale. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 30(4), 1035-1041.

The authors discuss the concept of recovery from psychiatric disorders and then review research on illness management and professional-based programs for helping people manage their mental illness.

Muesser, Kim T., Corrigan, Patrick W., Hilton, David W., Tanzman, Beth, et al. (2002). Illness Management and Recovery: A Review of the Research. Psychiatric Services, 53(10), 34-47.

This paper reports the findings from a survey in which all the principal components (both providers and consumers in one catchment area) contributed data about the degree to which vocational rehabilitation was integrated into systems of care for the mentally ill.

Harding, C.M., Strauss, J.S., Hafez, & Lieberman, P.B. (1987). Work and mental illness: Toward an integration of the rehabilitation process. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 175(6), 317-326.