Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access originally published online on April 26, 2006
Schizophrenia Bulletin 2006 32(3):430-431; doi:10.1093/schbul/sbj070
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Guest Editor Introduction: Promoting Recovery: Achieving the Promise
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The report of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health1 presents an ambitious agenda to transform the nation's mental health care systems (or current lack thereof) in order to better meet the needs of patients and families. One of the guiding principles for the report states that, in addition to ensuring that services and treatments are consumer- and family-centered, "care must focus on increasing consumers' ability to successfully cope with life's challenges, on facilitating recovery, and on building resilience, not just on
1To whom correspondence should be addressed; e-mail: Alehman@psych.umaryland.edu