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Work and mental health
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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Chris Kubiak. It was first published in March 2016 and updated in October 2023.

Credit is due to Jeanne Humber from Restore, who contributed to this course.

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3. Employment and recovery: Extract from The Principles of Recovery: Adapted from ‘Recovery – Concepts and application’ by Laurie Davidson, reproduced by kind permission of the Recovery Devon Group (http://www.recoverydevon.co.uk/ download/ Recovery_Concepts_Laurie_Davidson.pdf)

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Videos 1, 2 and 3: With thanks to Restore. © The Open University (for use in course only)

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