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- The Contribution of Self-Direction to Improving the Quality of Mental Health Services
- Study: Risk of Suicide Increases After Hospitalization
- How Consumers Step Up to Design a Truly Recovery-based Mental Health System
- Personal Care Attendant (PCA) services available to people with psychiatric disabilities
- Moral Therapy
- Living into Wholeness Handout Packet
- How Do We Recover? An Analysis of Psychiatric Survivor Oral Histories by Oryx Cohen
- Service dogs help people get back out into the community
- Advance Directives are what you make them
- An Inquiry about One Peer-Driven Curriculum to Train Peer Coaches: Reflecting on Power, Privilege and Supporting Each Other's Recovery
- I GOT BETTER Campaign - Executive Summary of Findings
- Outcomes from Consumer-Operated and Community Mental Health Services: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- Do we need a survivor history of madness?
- Report on the FDA Hearing on ECT Devices
- British Psychologists Introduce the “Power Threat Meaning Framework”
- Self-Stigma and Empowerment in Combined-CMHA and Consumer-Run Services: Two Controlled Trials
- Afraid of the dentist?
- The Human Impact of Seclusion and Restraint - Lauren Spiro
- Free Slides from Self-Determination Summit Available
- Determinants of Client Outcomes in Self-Help Agencies
- 10 Ways to De-Stress Your Life
- Consumer-operated service programs: Monetary and donated costs and cost-effectiveness.
- Peter Beresford on the need for a survivor-controlled museum of madness
- A tale of two boys
- Harm Reduction to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs & Withdrawal
- Warm Lines: An alternative to hospitalization
- Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs
- Recording from Thursday, September 26th - How to Embed Strategic Planning into the Culture of Your Organization
- Can Consumer-Led Mental Health Services be Equally Effective? An Integrative Review of CLMH Services in High-Income Countries
- Empowerment is Vital to Dialogical Recovery
- Dialogical Recovery of Life
- Intentional Recovery Planning Presentation - Alternatives 2006
- Will Hall’s Recovery Story
- Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities to Start a Small Business - Key to My Dream
- Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: A Guide by Peter Breggin
- Recording Now Available: Sailing on Self-Management, the Organization of Empowerment
- A longitudinal study of mental health consumer/survivor initiatives: Part V–Outcomes at 3-year follow-up
- Drug Safety Website
- The Emergence of a Collective Recovery Consciousness: L’esprit de Liberation, Recobrar la Vida
- Inspiration and Recovery in Iceland and Ireland, May 2010
- Mad in America's Withdrawal Resources Page
- Principles to Ensure Consumer-Driven Managed Care
- In Our Own Voice - African-American Stories of Oppression, Survival and Recovery in Mental Health Systems by Vanessa Jackson
- Webinar Recording: New Frontiers for Activism: Youth Involvement & Leadership in Research
- MindFreedom International: Advocating for human rights and alternatives in the "mental health" system
- Emotional CPR Webinar - Assisting Others Through Emotional Distress
- Rita Brooks, BS, CPS
- Heartbeats of Hope: The Empowerment Way to Recover Your Life
- Violence and Mental Illness
- Emotional CPR (eCPR)
- Challenging Prejudice and Discrimination Directed Towards People with Mental Health Challenges in Communities
- Inner and Outer Voices in Family and Network Therapy
- Recovery Dialogues: An Avenue for Culture Change in Psychiatric Hospitals
- Anatomy of an Epidemic, by Robert Whitaker -- Summary of Findings www.madinamerica.com
- Renee Kopache's Recovery Story
- Dialogical Recovery from Monological Medicine
- Shared Decision-Making by SAMHSA
- Becoming Dialogical: Psychotherapy or a Way of Life?
- Oryx Cohen's Recovery Story from the SCI Oral History project
- My Recovery from Schizophrenia
- Helper Information: Beyond Pathology
- Organizational Sustainability Training
- You and Me
- Lia Govers Recovery Story
- Online Training: Getting a Degree through Supported Education
- NEC Response to COVID-19: Emotional CPR goes online
- Recording Now Available of NEC’s Pass the Torch/30th Anniversary Celebration
- Coping with the Tragedy
- SAMHSA Consumer-Operated Services Evidence-Based Practices Kit
- Larry (L.A.) Jones
- Finding Our Voice: How Consumer/Survivor Advocacy is Transforming Mental Health Care
- The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?
- Guide to Housing and Mortgages for People with Disabilities
- Developing a Sense of Purpose
- The Right Combination – Kerry Brown
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and the Risk of Premature Mortality
- Anna's story: The effects of sexual abuse, the system's failure to respond and the emergence of a new, trauma-based paradigm
- Depression & Emotional Distress Bibliography
- Guide on Supported Education
- What is psychiatric malpractice?
- Transcript of ABC Radio National's Perspective program featuring Daniel Fisher
- Online Training: Consumers with Lived Experience - Critical Partners
- Emerging Proud - Carol's Recovery Story
- A Silent Dilemma: Censorship Of Mental Patients By the Media
- Optimizing Medication in the Service of Recovery: Is There a Path for Reducing Over-Utilization of Psychiatric Medications?
- Cultural Competency in Peer-Run Programs and Self-Help Groups
- A Way Out of Madness: Dealing with Your Family After You’ve Been Diagnosed with a Psychiatric Disorder
- Amanda Back's Recovery Story
- A Peer From England's Story
- Save the Date! Alternatives 2018 Is Planned for July 29 - August 3 in Washington, DC!
- Spreading Recovery to Portugal, N. Ireland and England
- August 2017 issue of Boston Voyager included article about NEC and an interview with Daniel Fisher
- Webinar Recording Now Available: Supporting Neurodivergent Students in Higher Ed & Challenging Discrimination: Human Rights & Social Justice
- Hope and Recovery in Australia
- Articles in Other Languages
- Webinar Recording Now Available: Art and Healing - The Beauty Path
- Pillars of Peer Support: Transforming Systems of Care through Peer Support Services
- Recording Now Available: The Living Room - A Welcoming Space for those in Crisis
- What Recovery Means in Acute Care
- Reclaiming your power during medication appointments with your psychiatrist
- Fact Sheets from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
- Protection and Advocacy Systems by State
- Brazil's social movement to close mental asylums
- Alternatives 2009 Health and Wellness Screening Report
- It's a small world after all: Self-help and mutual support groups in Israel
- Research Study Finds Unlocked, Mental Health Consumer-Managed, Crisis Residential Programs Produce Better Results Than Locked, Inpatient Facilities
- Comparative Analysis of State Requirements for Peer Support Specialist Training and Certification in the United States
- Someone who believed in them helped them to recover
- Practice Guidelines: Core Elements in Responding to Mental Health Crises
- Resonating in Japan
- Revisiting Schizophrenia: Are Drugs Always Needed?
- How Persons Recovering and Clinicians Can Promote Self-managed Care
- Guidebooks from the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
- Webinar Recording Now Available: How to Build Peer Support Ecosystems: Peer Services Offered in Communities Make a Difference in People's Lives
- Self-care and recovery
- Trúin á bata
- Webinar Recording Now Available: Emotional CPR by and for Youth
- Játningar óhlýðins sjúklings
- The Florida Self-Directed Care Program
- The Contribution of Self-Direction to Improving the Quality of Mental Health Services
- Webinar Recording Now Available: Art-making as an Alternative Philosophy of Care During Emotional Crisis
- Lækning og bati eru raunveruleg
- EEOC Issues Q&A Guide on Disabilities/Employment
- In the Driver's Seat: Guide to Self-Direction in Mental Health
- Lyfin ein gátu ekki komið með Robert aftur
- Connectedness and Citizenship: Redefining Social Integration (Study)
- Updated Hearing Voices Curriculum Now Available!
- Við erum meira en veikindi okkar
- Healing and recovery are real
- ROSI (Recovery Oriented Systems Indicators)
- Webinar Recording Now Available: Sources of Strength
- Webinar Recording Now Available: LGBTQ+ Youth Leadership Panel
- Self-Reliance and Belonging: Guest Experiences of a Peer Respite
- An Evaluation of Peer-Delivered Mental Health Disaster Relief Services in New York City - by Hardiman, et al. May 2005.
- We’ve Been Misled by the Drug Industry
- Geðklofi: Eru lyf ávallt nauðsynleg?
- From Relief to Recovery
- WHO Quality of Life Scale
- Recovering Humanity in South Korea: Nothing About Us Without Us
- Að heyra erfiðar raddir_Sjálfshjálp
- Guidebook for Peer Respite Self-Evaluation: Practical Steps and Tools
- Learning from Northern Europe
- Empowerment from Participation in Consumer-Run Organizations
- Pathways to Enhance Well-Being
- On the road with Judi Chamberlin: Six countries in four weeks!
- Guide on Seclusion and Restraint
- Meds Alone Couldn't Bring Robert Back
- Life Found in Translation - Magic Moment in Puerto Rico
- What is Self Determination
- Peer and Non-Peer Academic Scientists and Peer Support Specialist Community of Practice Stakeholder Engagement to Advance the Science of Peer Support
- Mad in America
- Self Determination
- An Introduction to Emotional CPR (eCPR)
- What I did on my summer vacation, or, some thoughts on survivor activism worldwide
- German Translation of 8/19/2001 New York Post article by Dr. Fisher
- Self-Determination and Independence Versus Force and Dependency
- Believing you can recover is vital to recovery from mental illness
- MindFreedom International: Advocating for human rights and alternatives in the "mental health" system
- Enhancing Standards and Principles in Digital Mental Health With Recovery-Focused Guidelines for Mobile, Online, and Remote Monitoring Technologies
- Catherine Penney discussed how she recovered from schizophrenia to become a psychiatric nurse
- A Brief Overview of The Art of Facilitating Self-Determination
- Self-Determination
- Forced Treatment Doesn’t Work
- Recovery Through Recognition of the History of Consumers and Survivors
- What Are the Characteristics of a Person Who has Recovered from Mental Illness?
- Pathways to Enhance Well-Being
- Pink Hats for Wendy
- Judi Chamberlin: Her Life, Our Movement
- Confessions of a non-compliant patient
- Five Steps to Mental and Physical Health
- Dan's healing and recovery tree
- Building Financial Wellness
- Empowerment Model of Recovery From Severe Mental Illness: An Expert Interview With Daniel B. Fisher, MD, PhD
- Long Description for Graphic Entitled "Empowerment Model of Recovery from Mental Illness"
- Journaling: A Wellness Tool
- People can recover from mental illness
- Psych Crisis Mania Guide
- Examining Root Causes of Trauma and the Way State Sanctioned Violence Disproportionately Impacts Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Communities of Color
- Funding the Movement
- Psychiatrist To Discuss Recovery
- Measuring the Promise: A Compendium of Recovery Measures
- Radio Interview of Dan Fisher in Poland about emotional CPR
- Boston Voyager Article about NEC COO Oryx Cohen
- People can fully recover from mental illness; it is not a life-long process
- HOPE (Hope Is a Choice)
- Voices of Transformation: Developing Recovery-Based Statewide Consumer/Survivor Organizations
- Announcing the Lived Experience Research Network (LERN)
- Hearing Voices Curriculum Now Available as Virtual Training
- National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery Guidelines for Promoting Recovery Through Choice and Alternatives
- A Look At . . . Coping With Mental Illness. We've Been Misled by the Drug Industry
- Webinar Recording Now Available: Finding Your Rhythm: Infusing Music into Crisis Settings
- Engaged, Employed and Wrestling With Mental Illness
- The Empowerment Model of Recovery: Finding our voice and having a say
- Promoting Meditation at Home: How to Design the Perfect Meditation Room
- Recording Now Available: Youth MOVE's Approach to Developing Youth Leadership
- American Cancer Society's Guide to Coping with the Loss of a Loved One
- Dan Fisher's Keynote Address, "Heartbeats of Hope" to the Asia Pacific Conference, Brisbane, Australia, October 25, 2016
- The Anti-Authoritarian Movement to Rehumanize Mental Health by Bruce Levine
- Electronic Health Records (EHR)
- The Ex-Patients' Movement: Where We've Been and Where We're Going
- National Empowerment Center Marches for Dignity
- testing free photo library
- Mental illness is a coping mechanism
- NEC's Video Supporting the Alternatives Conference, Peer-Run Programs, and Alternatives in General
- Judi Chamberlin Archives
- CHOICES Executive Director
- Recommended Graduate Programs for Students with Lived Experience of Mental Health
- Articles in Other Languages
- Yana Jacobs and Michael Cornwall Talk About Peer Respites on Mental Health Matters
- The Need for Size Equality in the Mental Health Recovery Movement: Ways that Peer/Recovery Activists Can Do Better on Issues of Sizeism, Diet Culture, and Eating Disorders
- Daniel Fisher Shares Recovery in Iceland
- Electroshock Survivors and Advocates Testify Before FDA Committee: Don't Reclassify ECT Machines
- Webinar Recording Now Available: Creating Sustainable Community Partnerships
- A Case Study of the Peer-Run Crisis Respite Organizing Process in Massachusetts
- Improving Relationships Between Police and the Mental Health Community
- Learning to Drive with Autism
- Recording from Tuesday, March 14 - Conflict Management in Peer-Run Organizations: Tools for Effective Conversations presented by Elisa Padilla from NAMI Star Center
- Facts About Mental Health & Physical and Sexual Abuses
- How the Better Days Approach Can Help in a Crisis
- Recording from Wednesday, May 15th- Developing a Board of Directors for Mental Health Organizations presented by Matthew Federici and Amey Dettmer from Doors to Wellbeing
- Alternatives to Suicide: Lessons from the Western Massachusetts Recovery Learning Community
- One woman's wish for "Depression Screening Day" and "Mental Health Awareness Month"
- We Are the Evidence: Evaluation of Peer Programs
- Moving Toward a Human Rights Approach to Mental Health, published in Community Mental Health Journal, by Jim Probert
- Preserve our rights and programs through cross-disability coalitions and education
- PeerLink Evaluation Report - Recovery and Community Health
- Moving Toward a Human Rights Approach to Mental Health, published in Community Mental Health Journal, by Jim Probert
- Advocates' Guide 2020
- Hearing voices that are distressing: Self-help resources and strategies
- Listening to consumer/survivors from the deaf community
- Self-Direction Through Personalized Budgeting
- Webinar Recording Now Available: Youth Empowerment and Self-Discovery through Emotional CPR in Schools
- Citizenship rights & psychiatric disability
- Deadly restraint: Reform or abolish?
- Ensuring Social Inclusion by Focusing on Personal and Community Wellness
- Healing from Trauma by Centering Health and Wellness in Social Justice Movements
- Another Look At Depression: An Alternative Perspective
- Effect of Psychiatric Advance Directives Facilitated by Peer Workers on Compulsory Admission Among People With Mental Illness
- Interview with Judi Chamberlin
- Voices of Transformation: Developing Recovery-Based Statewide Consumer/Survivor Organizations
- Mental
- Another Look at Depression
- Hearing Our Voices: Peer Support and Mental Illness (TEDx Talk)
- Dr. Daniel Fisher Igniting the Recovery of Our Humanity
- Don Weitz's Story: Insulin Shock - A Survivor's Account of Psychiatric Torture
- It Matters How People Are Treated
- Dan Fisher on eCPR - Podcast on ABC
- Webinar Recording Now Available: Neurodiversity Gifts: A Meta-Map
- Judi Chamberlin is 1995 Pike Prize recipient
- Responding to Emotional Crisis
- Escuchando voces que deprimen: Recursos y Estrategias para ayudarse asi mismo
- Connectedness and Citizenship: Redefining Social Integration by Norma Ware et al
- Recording of "Warmlines: Crisis & Supplemental Supports"
- Hearing voices that are distressing: Self-help resources and strategies (Part two)
- Webinar Recording Now Available: Year One Lessons as a Youth Mental Health Non-Profit Leader at The Jed Foundation
- Recovery Do's and Don'ts
- Alternatives 2019: July 7 - 11 in Washington DC
- Rights are Universal
- The Danger and Opportunity in Crisis
- Webinar Recording Now Available: Increasing Occupational Resiliency for Peer-Run Respite Staff & Volunteers
- Webinar Recording: Peer Respites - Research and Practice
- Promoting Wellness on the Individual Level - a talk by Lauren Spiro
- Self-determination and independence versus force and dependency
- Peer Support Resources Website
- From Asylums to Recovery
- Webinar Recording: The Importance of Cultural Diversity, Equity, and Intersectionality in Peer Work
- Food for Thought: It's like nothing you've ever tasted!
- Hearing Voices
- Spiritual Emergence
- Emotional CPR in Poland!
- From the Ground Up: How to Build your own Recovery Center
- Speaking from your Heart: Public Speaking and the Path to Recovery
- Recording Now Available: Creating Space for Myself
- Engaging Women in Trauma-Informed Peer Support: A Guidebook
- Re-Awaken Australia, sponsored in part by the National Empowerment Center, took place April 8 to April 12, 2019!
- Webinar Recording Now Available: Finding Our Voice
- The Value of Depression
- From Relief to Recovery
- Significant Loss of Brain Tissue as a Result of Antipsychotics
- Housing and Employment Outcomes for Mental Health Self-Direction Participants
- A Working Definition of Empowerment
- Tardive Dyskinesia and Tardive Dystonia: where you can turn for help
- Nurturing Oneself in Depression
- Dr. Richard Bentall's Critique of Biological Psychiatry
- Webinar Recording Now Available: A Taste of Wonderland - Birthing a New Story of 'Best Life' for All
- History of the Consumer/Survivor Movement
- Stepping Stone crisis respite program will offer compassionate alternative
- Webinar Recording Now Available: Do You Hear What I Hear?
- Study: Compulsory Treatment Unjustified
- Wild Indians: Native Perspectives on the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians by Pemima Yellow Bird
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