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Promoting Activity and Participation in Individuals with Serious Mental Illness: The Action Over Inertia Approach

by Terry Krupa

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A practice guide for supporting everyday activity in mental health recovery

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A practice guide for supporting everyday activity in mental health recovery

Action Over Inertia presents a strengths-based, recovery-oriented framework for addressing disruptions to daily activities and community participation among people living with serious mental illness. Grounded in occupational science and therapy, it frames small, supported steps in doing as a foundation for sustained, meaningful change. The guide also turns attention toward practitioners’ own assumptions, biases, and service constraints that can shape activity-focused interventions. Worksheets, vignettes, resources, and other practical tools make the approach applicable to professional reflection and service delivery.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Mental health professionals developing activity- and participation-focused supports
  • Occupational therapy and occupational science practitioners
  • Peer providers, administrators, and policy makers working in mental health recovery

Themes

Mental health recoveryDaily activity and participationStrengths-based practiceOccupational therapyCommunity inclusion

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Book overview

This book presents "Action Over Inertia," a recovery-orientated, strengths-based approach to address the profound disruptions in daily activities and community participation often experienced by those living with serious mental illnesses.

With a focus on supported "doing", the Action Over Inertia approach engages individuals in small activity and participation efforts as an opening to making longer term and sustained changes that offer meaning and well-being. The book helps service providers develop their own knowledge of activities and the health and well-being benefits an individual might receive from activities. It also asks them to consider the biases, assumptions, and constraints that might impact their ability to implement interventions related to activity and participation. A range of worksheets, resources, vignettes, and other tools are provided to support this practice.

The manual was developed from the knowledge and practice of occupational science and therapy, but it will be of interest to any mental health professional, peer-provider, administrator, or policy maker interested in promoting recovery for people with serious mental illness

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