ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION Historically, schizophrenia has been considered to be a chronic mental illness with little hope of remission or recovery. Whereas the treatment for schizophrenia has focused largely on symptom management, the psychosocial interventions for psychosis have largely been neglected. The recovery movement began as a response to social and political forces almost 40 years ago. Both consumers and providers of mental health services have expressed dissatisfaction with the singular focus on medication as the treatment for schizophrenia. Over the past two decades, there has been a definitive mainstream transformation in beliefs regarding the possibility of not just remission from symptoms but also recovery from schizophrenia and improvement in community functioning.
