Illnesses don't recover. People do.

Pat Deegan's Recovery Approach focuses on the person instead of the illness and offers hope-filled tools, technologies and training for people, families and providers. Using Pat's Approach, people can get and keep the life they want, and staff gain the knowledge and skills for practicing true recovery-oriented care.

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Pat Deegan: Disruptive Innovator

Patricia E. Deegan Ph.D. is the founder of Pat Deegan & Associates (PDA). For over 30 years Pat has been a thought leader and disruptive innovator in the field of behavioral health recovery.

Pat Deegan's Recovery Approach includes the award-winning CommonGround Software, Recovery Academy, Medication Empowerment, Certified Personal Medicine Coaching and the Hearing Distressing Voices Simulation.

Pat is an activist in the survivor movement and has lived her own journey of recovery after being diagnosed with schizophrenia as a teenager.

She has held several academic appointments, has numerous publications, and has carried a message of hope for recovery to audiences around the world.

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In the Spotlight... 

March 2023

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Certified Personal Medicine Coach

March 1, 2023

We're excited to have a new cohort of Certified Personal Medicine Coaches beginning their 11-week journey toward certification. This is our March open cohort with folks joining us from all over the world.

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Goodbye Google 

March 2, 2023

My colleague Missy Rufo will be meeting with Academy + Library users throughout Pennsylvania to support them in deepening their learning around using Recovery Library.  

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Certified Personal Medicine Coach Kick-off Lifewell Alpha.

March 8, 2023

We're excited to have a new cohort of Certified Personal Medicine Coaches beginning their 11-week journey toward certification at Lifewell-Alpha This group will be led by our  
CPMC-T Ian Cully.

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Certified Personal Medicine Coach Kick-off Oregon.

March 7, 2023

We're excited to have a new cohort of Certified Personal Medicine Coaches beginning their 11-week journey toward certification. This group will be led by our  
CPMC-T's Asia Gray and Allyson Morrison.

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Power Statements: A Tool for Individualized Treatment Planning

March 8, 2023

Pat Deegan and Allison Stiles will be meeting with ACT Teams in Washington State to share how to use Power Statements to support individualized treatment planning.

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Certified Personal Medicine Coach Southwest Virginia CSB's

March 16, 2023

We're excited to have a new cohort of Certified Personal Medicine Coaches beginning their 11-week journey toward certification. This group will be led by our CPMC-T's Heather Peck, Devin Perdue and Justine Perdue.

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Certified Personal Medicine Coach Centro Esperanza

March 16, 2023

We're excited to have a new cohort of Certified Personal Medicine Coaches beginning their 11-week journey toward certification. This group will be led by our CPMC-T Beth Fish.

In the Media...

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The Me You Can't See

Pat sat down with Oprah and Prince Harry to discuss mental health recovery.

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Anderson Cooper

Anderson Cooper tried Pat's Hearing Distressing Voices Simulation. Pat and Anderson chatted about his experience.

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Psychiatric Services: Podcast

Pat joined Lisa Dixon, MD to discuss Pat's recent publication: The Journey To Use Medications Optimally to Support Recovery.

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Unapologetically Black Unicorns

Pat sat down with Keris Jän Myrick on her Podcase Unapologetically Black Unicorns to discuss how Representation and Intentions Matter

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From Pat's Blog...

Don't Let Anyone But You Define What's Possible for Your Recovery

Aug 26, 2022

Me-On-Medicine

Mar 22, 2022

Disclosure and privacy for peer specialists

Jan 28, 2022

Remembering Darby Penney

Dec 16, 2021

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