Defining Recovery: an interactionist analysis of mental health policy development: Wisconson 1996-1999

workgroup of system stakeholders defined and operationalized the concept of recovery. Based on participant observation, document analysis, and interviews, with an analytic framework drawn from symbolic interactionism, the author finds that although individual members held a range of definitions of recovery, the workgroup was able to reach consensus in its pol-icy recommendations through processual means and by tacitly agreeing on a set of overarch-ing values that were flexible enough to accommodate many definitions