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title: "Psych News Alert: IPS Speaker Urges Treatment Aimed at 'Full Recovery'"
description: “Recovery is not the absence of symptoms,” said Wilma Townsend, M.S.W., keynote speaker at APA's Institute on Psychiatric Services, in S...
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 10/28/11 12:00 AM

# IPS Speaker Urges Treatment Aimed at 'Full Recovery'

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“Recovery is not the absence of symptoms,” said Wilma Townsend, M.S.W., keynote speaker at APA's Institute on Psychiatric Services, in San Francisco yesterday. Townsend is a public health analyst at the Center for Mental Health Services in the Consumer Affairs Office of SAMHSA. She is a recognized national consumer leader in the recovery movement and has written two books in this area—*Emerging Best Practices in Mental Health Recovery, Eds. 1 and 2* and *Consumers in the Mental Health Workforce: A Handbook for Community Providers.* Townsend spoke about her own experience in recovery from mental illness and urged psychiatrists at the meeting to involve patients and their families in a treatment plan aimed at full recovery. For more information about recovery, see *[Psychiatric News](http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/39/22/24.1.full)*.

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