| Mental illness is regarded to become chronic with poor prognosis. When a person is diagnosed with mental illness, the illness becomes the main concern of one’s life. According to the recovery perspective, the illness is only one negative part of one’s life, person with psychiatric disorder can still have new possibilities and develop other positive parts of their lives. Therefore, the research provides suggestion, which is experiential group work with recovery perspective, to solve the problem with pathology perspective. The aims of this study are:under the people-oriented awareness, to understand the recovery process of mental illness people; to understand the meaning of the experiential groups work in their recovery process; to provide suggestion for future service and intervention.The study used action research, with participant observation, in-depth interviews and focus group. Strengths evaluation scale was used to collecting data. The major results of this study are summarized in two parts:1.To some degree,this study coping with the problems exist in pathology perspective in the rehabilitation service. Firstly, to carry out the experiential group work, advancing the self-awareness with strengths and wreaking the negative label. Secondly, recovering the new experience and meaningful of life. Finally, improving the communication ability with people and environment.2. On the basis of this discovery, put forward the path of the experiential group work, which is "meaning-memory-timeliness-unity of body and mind"Based on the findings, the researcher will provide suggestions on the improvements of the policy and service design and future research. |