Pathways to Recovery: A Strengths Recovery Self-Help Workbook
Priscilla Ridgway  After working over 30 years in the mental health field, I’m suddenly much more optimistic!  I’ve working in direct practice, disability rights, supported housing, policy analysis & best practice research—specifically to understand resilience & advance consumer voice.  My own experiences as an accidental mystic, a person with a traumatic brain injury and someone who has struggled with depression & PTSD have given me a greater depth of awareness.  I am in love with the power of resilience & creativity that allow us to heal & be transformed.   Diane McDiarmid  At the University of Kansas, I served as Director of the Strengths Recovery, Supported Education & Consumer as Provider projects.  I’ve taught the Strengths Perspective across the U.S. & internationally and served as an adjunct professor, developing course curricula and teaching social work classes in the School of Social Welfare.  With many years of experience in direct  clinical practice, policy & administration, I’ve witnessed the positive impact  on people’s lives from implementing a strengths-based perspective.   Lori Davidson  I’ve worked in the mental health field for over 20 years, learning from each story that has been shared with me.  Over this time, I have come to realize that the line between us is very thin, if not non-existant. I draw on my own journey with depression as a major factor in supporting individuals to take risks on their own recovery journey.   Julie Bayes   During the writing of Pathways, I served as a consumer provider in the psychosocial program at Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center in Lawrence, Kansas and on the board of directors of Independence, Inc., an independent living resource center. While working as a journalist & television producer, I was diagnosed in 1986 with multiple personality disorder. After struggling with my illness for 10 years, I finally  started working on recovery. Through individual therapy & skills work, I learned to relate to the world around me. My motto became “what we think, we become.” I live each day by those words & regularly continue my advocacy work. Sarah Ratzlaff   In addition to working on Pathways to Recovery, I was the research assistant for the Supported Education Group at the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare, developing research for the Kansas Consumer as Provider program and other supported education initiatives.  I continue to be infinitely inspired by this book and the stories I've heard.