Recovery at 30: Perspectives from Psychiatry Clinicians and Senior Faculty.

According to William Anthony's "Recovery from mental illness: the guiding vision of the mental health service system in the 1990s," mental health recovery means "changing one's attitudes, values, feelings, goals, and skills in order to live a satisfying life within the limitations caused by illness." This seminal work served as an overarching goal, a call to action, and a roadmap for the enhancement of psychiatric recovery. Unfortunately, from many viewpoints, the goals encouraged by Anthony have not been achieved.

Pennsylvania coordinated specialty care programs for first-episode psychosis: 6- and 12-month outcomes.

Aim: Pennsylvania (PA) first-episode psychosis (FEP) program evaluation is a statewide initiative, supported by the PA Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (PA-OMHSAS) and administered by PA Early Intervention Center/Heads Up, which evaluates fidelity and outcomes of PA Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) programs. Programs participate in standard computerized measures of CSC outcomes using centralized informatics. The aims of the current report are to describe implementation of this core battery for program evaluation in PA and to present 6- and 12-month outcomes.