Conceptualizing Recovery from Mental Illness in Indonesia: A Scoping Review

Understanding how recovery is defined and realized across different cultural contexts is vital to upholding the dignity and rights of people with mental illnesses. Within the Indonesian context, there is a dearth of research about conceptualizations of recovery from mental illnesses. Questions remain as to whether and to what extent service users and service providers share common definitions of this concept. We conducted a scoping review to interrogate current definitions of recovery from the perspectives of various actors working with people with lived experiences of mental illness and/or extreme mental distress. We found that definitions of recovery span multiple domains, and include clinical, functional, social, and spiritual recovery. This scoping review adds to key literature about recovery among individuals with mental illness and psychosocial disabilities, and provides recommendations for improved service delivery.