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Abstract
Patients with psychosis often suffer reduced quality of life and impaired social functioning. Improving functioning is an important target for health services, both ethically and economically (Gaite et al., 2002).
Schizophrenia is “the prototypical severe mental illness” which is coined as a “barometer of mental health care policy” .Schizophrenia affects one percent of the world’s population, and accounts for about 2.5 percent of all health care costs. Sadly, this dreaded disorder has no certain cause, test, or cure. But it is, fortunately, usually manageable with proper, consistent care (Pyle et al., 2013). Many patients with symptomatic remission do not achieve functional recovery. Symptomatic remission and functional recovery seem to be variable domains, representing 2 steps towards recovery that can but do not necessarily overlap. Nowadays, there is more interest in functional outcome, and treatment success is better defined by it (Peuskens et al., 2012). Clinical recovery’ has emerged from professional literature, focuses on sustained remission and restoration of functioning, is invariant across individuals, and has been used to establish rates of recovery. ‘Personal recovery’ has emerged from consumer narratives, focuses on living a satisfying, hopeful and contributing life even with limitations caused by the illness, and varies across individuals (Slade et al., 2008).