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The ‘how’ of mental health recovery: Developing a model of internal and external recovery processes using critical realist thematic analysis of first-person online narratives

2026-07-29

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<p>Extant mental health recovery frameworks offer valuable thematic summaries, however are ill-equipped to explain how recovery occurs. Their descriptive, individualistic focus fails to account for systemic inequalities or ground new interventions. This study sought to develop an explanatory, general-purpose model of personal recovery by specifying relationships across recovery experiences, the actions leading to...

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Literature Corpus work: 9fdcb375-fc53-548e-8880-837b2cdb4cf5
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/qtwj2_v1

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