Measuring Mental Health Recovery: An Application of Rasch Modeling to the Consumer Recovery Measure.

As the need for recovery-oriented outcomes increases, it is critical to understand how numeric recovery scores are developed. In the current article, the modern Rasch modeling techniques were applied to establish numeric scores of consumers' perceptions of recovery. A sample of 1,973 adult consumers at a community-based mental health center (57.

Measuring recovery related outcomes: a psychometric investigation of the recovery markers inventory.

The concept of recovery can be operationalized from either the point of view of the consumer or from the perspective of the provider of services. The Recovery Markers Inventory (RMI) was created to assess recovery-related factors (i.e.

Seven key strategies that work together to create recovery based transformation.

This article describes seven key strategies used by the Mental Health Center of Denver in its quest to become a recovery-focused center. The description includes circumstances that were converted into opportunities for multi-level changes within the organization. The changes described include: (a) Vision and persistent leadership, (b) Consumer inclusion and involvement, (c) Seize opportunities to add recovery oriented ideas into clinical practice, (d) Providing the right level of service at the right time, (e) On site staff recovery training, (f) Hiring the right people, and (g) Outcome driven learning and quality improvement.

Depressive symptoms in early marriage: predictions from relationship confidence and negative marital interaction.

The authors proposed a model of depressive symptoms in early marriage in which relationship confidence, defined as perceived couple-level efficacy to manage conflicts and maintain a healthy relationship, mediates the effect of negative marital interactions on depressive symptoms. The model was tested in a sample of 139 couples assessed prior to marriage and 1 year later. As predicted, relationship confidence demonstrated simple negative associations with negative marital interaction and depressive symptoms for all participants.

Mechanisms of change in a cognitive behavioral couples prevention program: does being naughty or nice matter?

Although there is a body of evidence suggesting beneficial effects of premarital prevention, little research directly examines the mechanisms of effect. One study that examined changes in communication following training in the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP) found that, although couples made the expected communication gains pre to post PREP, female gains in positive communication were paradoxically associated with worse, not better, outcomes (Schilling et al., J.