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.
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.
In the Spotlight...
October 2022
Peer Staff: A disruptive innovation
October 5, 2022
Pat Deegan will be speaking at New Hampshire Peer Leadership Forum. She will be highlighting the roots of peer support as an alternative to traditional services and how peer specialists help to disrupt business as usual and shift to a recovery orientation in services.
Certified CommonGround Specialist Meeting
October 5, 2022
Team PDA will be meeting with Certified CommonGround Specialists from Community Care Behavioral Health in preparation for our upcoming Annual DSC Conference in Pennsylvania.
The Intersection of Community Care's Framework for Promoting Health and Well-Being and Pat Deegan's Recovery Approach
October 6, 2022
In this opening webinar, Pat Deegan will be presenting on the intersection of Community Care Behavioral Health's framework and the integration of Pat's Recovery Approach to providers throughout Pennsylvania.
Academy + Library Consultation
October 19, 2022
Pat Deegan and Associates will be meeting with psychiatric care providers on FEP Teams in Washington on integrating Academy + Library into day-to-day practice.
The Power of Personal Medicine
October 20, 2022
In honor of Global Peer Support Day, my colleague Allison Stiles will be presenting on The Power of Personal Medicine along with our friends at RI International.
Personal Medicine: A Tool for Engagement and Activation in Recovery
October 27, 2022
In this interactive webinar with our friends from OSECE, my colleague Allison Stiles will explore common challenges related to engagement and activation in recovery and outline how Personal Medicine is a powerful and effective tool to engage clients in care.
In the Media...
The Me You Can't See
Pat sat down with Oprah and Prince Harry to discuss mental health recovery.
Anderson Cooper
Anderson Cooper tried Pat's Hearing Distressing Voices Simulation. Pat and Anderson chatted about his experience.
Psychiatric Services: Podcast
Pat joined Lisa Dixon, MD to discuss Pat's recent publication: The Journey To Use Medications Optimally to Support Recovery.
Unapologetically Black Unicorns
Pat sat down with Keris Jän Myrick on her Podcase Unapologetically Black Unicorns to discuss how Representation and Intentions Matter
We don't have customers. We have partners in recovery.
