Developmental Distinctions Posts

WRAP Share

Sharing About WRAP… I use WRAP daily to manage the symptoms of my bipolar. I know what I look like when I am well and when I have been triggered. I work hard daily to use my WRAP program as well as medication and therapy, to manage a very difficult form of this...

The Rehabilitation of the Hospitalized Mentally Ill – The Vermont Story

The Vermont Project for rehabilitation of chronic schizophrenic patients reports an unusual degree of success. The nature of its program , its operation, and the factors involved in its success are presented. Emphasis is placed on the need for “faith, hope and...

Vermont Recovery Education Project

Vermont Psychiatric Survivors, Inc., and the Vermont Department of Developmental and Mental Health Services Introduction In August of 1995, the Commissioner of the Department of Developmental and Mental Health Services (DDMHS) established a programmatic priority for...

The WRAP Story – Origins and Healing

When I think about where WRAP came from, my thoughts go back in time, much further than I thought they would go. They go back in time to when I was a very little girl, eight years old, lonely and frightened, as a nurse with lots of keys unlocked numerous heavy doors,...

Finding Restorative Care for Mental Illness

by Robert Sealey, BSc, CA A Guide for Patients, Families & Caregivers Contents Reading, Recovery, Writing & Coaching 2 36 Recovery Stories – by patients 2 A Promise of Hope 2 W.R.A.P – Wellness Recovery Action Plan 3 The Way Up From Down 3 Masks of Madness:...

Wellness Tools I Can Always Count On

By Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD & Gina Calhoun Gina Calhoun, training director for the Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery has worked with a group of amazing people with lived experience to develop WRAP for People with Developmental Distinctions. She has...