Outputs (2)

The impact of life story work during peer worker training: Identity reconstruction, social connection, and recovery (2025)
Journal Article
Agergaard Jensen, R. A., Lehn Brand, S., Holm, T., Slade, M., & Kirkegaard Thomsen, D. (2025). The impact of life story work during peer worker training: Identity reconstruction, social connection, and recovery. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, https://doi.org/10.1037/prj0000639

Objective: Personal recovery has become a guiding vision in mental health care, and peer workers play a key role in assisting individuals on their recovery journey. As a component of training to prepare for this role, peer workers need to engage with... Read More about The impact of life story work during peer worker training: Identity reconstruction, social connection, and recovery.

Assessing personal recovery in individuals with severe mental illness: validation of the Dutch Brief INSPIRE-O (2025)
Journal Article
Swildens, W. E., Visser, E., Van Ens, W., Schaefer, B., Nugter, A., Delespaul, P., Van Weeghel, J., Slade, M., & Sanches, S. A. (2025). Assessing personal recovery in individuals with severe mental illness: validation of the Dutch Brief INSPIRE-O. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-025-02815-5

Purpose

Recovery is a key objective in mental health services for people with severe mental illness (SMI). In addition to clinical and functional recovery, personal recovery has gained increasing attention. The CHIME Framework identifies five pers... Read More about Assessing personal recovery in individuals with severe mental illness: validation of the Dutch Brief INSPIRE-O.