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MEMORIAM

In Memory of William (Bill) A. Anthony: A Pioneer and Leader of Psychiatric/Psychosocial Rehabilitation Abraham Rudnick

Ó Springer Nature India Private Limited 2020

Abstract William (Bill) A. Anthony passed away in July 2020. This brief article reports his legacy in relation to psychiatric/psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery oriented mental health services. Keywords Anthony
Legacy
Mental health
Psychiatric/psychosocial rehabilitation
Recovery

William (Bill) A. Anthony passed away in July 2020. Due to his importance to the mental health sector, this brief article reports his legacy in relation to psychiatric/psychosocial rehabilitation (PSR) and recovery oriented mental health services. Bill was a Professor in the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and the founding Executive Director of the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, both at Boston University. He retired in 2011, when he became Emeritus Professor. He was also a co-editor of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal. Since the 1970s, he led the establishment of a PSR approach that has guided much PSR in North America and elsewhere to date. In the 1990s, he

A. Rudnick (&) Department of Psychiatry and School of Occupational Therapy, Dalhousie University, and Nova Scotia Operational Stress Injury Clinic, 210-100 Eileen Stubbs Avenue, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia B3B1Y6, Canada e-mail: [email protected]

supported and participated in the recovery movement and clarified the compatibility of PSR with recovery of people who have mental health challenges. He published research and other papers, books, chapters and more on PSR and on recovery, and helped develop related research, education, practice and policy. This PSR approach is informed by various sources, such as physical rehabilitation and human services. It addresses adaptive skills and supports of people with mental health challenges, to help establish and maintain their satisfaction and success in their environments of choice (residential, vocational, social and more). Such conceptualization and terminology facilitates a person-centered approach that involves respect for people with mental health challenges and their choices. It also clarifies that PSR attempts to optimize the fit between the person with mental health challenges and their environments of choice. According to this approach, no one is excluded from PSR if they want to try to benefit from it; if a person is not ready for PSR, which means they do not have one or more PSR goals set, rehabilitation readiness assessment and development is used to help them clarify personal and environmental issues and thus prepare to set one or more PSR goals. A particularly helpful resource for this PSR approach is still [1]. Bill’s involvement with recovery addressed the lived experience and leadership of people with mental health challenges in relation to their mental health needs and services. He clarified that recovery (as both personal process and clinical outcomes) is an

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