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Published on: May 31, 2019
Personal recovery and its key processes: Validating the connectedness, hope, identity, meaning, empowerment, and
1Department of Rehabilitation and Human Services, Pennsylvania State University Wilkes-Barre.
Objective:
This study aimed to comprehensively evaluate the connectedness, hope, identity, meaning, empowerment, and difficulties (CHIME-D) framework and its six core processes as predictors of personal recovery among individuals with psychiatric disabilities.
Methods:
A total of 339 adults with self-reported psychiatric disabilities were recruited from https://ResearchMatch.org and completed an online survey comprising validated measures of personal recovery and variables operationalizing the six CHIME-D processes. A hierarchical regression analysis was conducted to assess the individual contributions of each process and the overall predictive power of the CHIME-D framework for personal recovery.
Results:
The final regression model accounted for 69% of the variance in personal recovery. Each CHIME-D process contributed a statistically significant portion of the variance. In the final model, all variables except community integration remained significant predictors of personal recovery.
Conclusions And Implications For Practice:
Findings support the CHIME-D framework as a robust, evidence-based guiding framework for recovery-oriented care. Each CHIME-D process represents a potential target for interventions aimed at promoting personal recovery. Psychiatric rehabilitation professionals are encouraged to attend to all six processes when working with individuals with psychiatric disabilities to enhance recovery outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).
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