Recovery Star (4th Edition)
For people with mental health and wellbeing needs
Who is the Recovery Star (4th Edition) for?
The Recovery Star was developed to support individuals with a wide range of short and long term mental health conditions. The Star aims to help people in their recovery, where ‘recovery’ may mean living well with mental health issues, rather than having no symptoms.
The Recovery Star helps people and the services supporting them identify progress towards key outcomes like managing mental health, physical health, relationships and trust and hope, and give clarity on where to focus next.
- I work with people in secure settings, can I use Recovery Star?
If you work with people in secure settings you can use Recovery Star Secure. This Star has been developed especially for those who are in secure services and aims to help them to gain new skills, understanding and ways of responding to move on from their current setting and have more freedom, choice and control in their life.
Using the Outcomes Star approach
The Recovery Star (4th Edition) is designed to be used as part of the Outcomes Star approach. That’s why we provide essential training and ongoing support to all licenced practitioners, so you can embed the Outcomes Star approach in your practice.
How does the Recovery Star (4th Edition) work?
The Recovery Star covers ten key outcome areas to help people manage their mental health, and assesses their progress towards each following a five-stage Journey of Change.
You and the people you support will fill our the Star together, and use it to better identify where their strengths lie and where they might need more help, and to make plans for moving forward along the journey.
Outcome areas
Managing mental health
Physical health
Living skills
Friends and community
Use of time
Relationships
Addictive behaviour
Home
Identity and self-esteem
Trust and hope
The Journey of Change
01
Stuck
02
Accepting help
03
Believing and trying
04
Learning
05
Self-reliance
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Always rooted in expertise and experience
The original Recovery Star was developed in collaboration with the Association of Mental Health Providers (then MHPF) with funding from SITRA and Making Space.
The 4th edition has been influenced by mental health professionals, organisations and commissioners and by the lived experience of service users. Contributions to the development have also included Research Net Bromley, Community Options, Sunderland Mind, Sheffield Mind, HEY Mind, Dr Lynne Friedli, Nick Karr, Midland Heart Housing Association, Sheffield County Council, Worcester NHS and Sheffield Local Authority.
