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Understanding Social Disability & Social RecoveryOur research is about social disability and social recovery. Social disability is when people struggle to live the lives they want to and do the things they would like to do. Social recovery is about increasing the time people spend in structured activities which they find personally meaningful.Click Here
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Promoting meaningful behaviour change in a social recovery-focused systemSocial Recovery Therapy (or SRT) focuses on working with individuals and systems around them; e.g. family, friends, mental health/other professionals and activity providers. This helps individuals to engage in meaningful activities within a system that supports and encourages them in doing so, which helps the engagement in activity to last.Click Here
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Walking alongside – The SRT Therapeutic RelationshipOne of the most important parts of our intervention for social disability (Social Recovery Therapy or SRT) is a supportive, hopeful and assertive relationship with the SRT therapist. The SRT therapist will walk alongside the individual as they work towards understanding and managing barriers to social recovery.Click Here
Talking about my interests and kind of things that I used to do, or would have done, or would like to do
Actually, it’s not that unobtainable, you can do it - and once you do it, you feel really good
Now I can see myself being successful, I can see myself being happy, going on adventures
Since the therapy I’ve been on a training course with other people I don’t know in a place I don’t know
So we went to a supermarket to do an experiment, and that really helped because people just carried on as normal; no-one really noticed