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.

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In the Spotlight...

^March 2023

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.