Table 1.

Questions for clinicians, researchers, and policy makers interested in fostering recovery and recovery-oriented treatment and funding systems.

1) How can clinicians help consumers learn the key tasks of “taking stock”?

2) What are the best ways to facilitate hope, optimism, and agency throughout the recovery process?

3) What are the circumstances that facilitate recovery-related “turning points” or personal decisions, and how can we foster them?

4) How can we determine the best timing for supporting meaningful activities such as employment, or interventions designed to promote other recovery-related factors?

5) How can we minimize damage to agency, autonomy, control, hope, and optimism, if hospitalization or incarceration cannot be avoided?

6) What kinds of support systems, formal and informal, are most likely to promote recovery, and how can we encourage their growth and development?

7) How can we facilitate resource development and prevent resource loss (particularly loss spirals)?

8) What kind of systems for organizing and financing care will best promote principles of treatment most important to the recovery process?