Illness Management and Recovery

About This Series

This course is an introduction to the Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) program as an evidence-based practice which helps individuals develop tools to manage their mental health conditions, set meaningful goals and make progress towards their personal recovery.  This course explores the relationship between illness management and recovery, and identifies the core values and components of IMR that make this program unique. Topics covered include the educational content of IMR and goal setting strategies that are useful in helping participants set and achieve individualized recovery goals. Motivational, educational and cognitive behavioral strategies that IMR facilitators use to run an effective group are discussed.

This course uses an audio narrative, along with the use of multimedia.  Your experience will be better if you use a headset and have the audio volume turned up on your computer!  You can progress through the module by using the arrows at the bottom left.