![]() ![]() This chapter emphasizes historical, current, and intersectional perspectives and challenges to three factors we believe are essential to changing our system: 1. Mental health professionals can, and should, play a central role in supporting recovery for people with psychosis, changing harmful messages and stigma, and in advocating for the dissemination and availability of psychosocial interventions for psychosis. ![]() This limits research, services available, and dissemination of proven interventions, even when they have empirical support and result in long-term cost savings. ![]() Mental health stigma endures, both in society and as reflected in poor funding, workforce development, and implementation. For many Americans who experience psychosis, medication and risk management remain the focus of treatment despite the long history of effective psychosocial treatments for psychosis. Images of disability and dangerousness are visible in our society and media, but we don’t see the millions of people who have lived well with or despite psychosis. What is less commonly known is the ample evidence for recovery. “It is common knowledge that psychosis and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders are often associated with disability and suffering. ![]()
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