What does it mean to "recover" from serious mental/emotional problems?
“Is There a Getting Better From This, or Not?”
Examining the Meaning and Possibility of Recovery from Mental Disorder (Hess, Lacasse, Harmon, Williams and Vierling-Claassen, 2014)
What does it mean for a treatment to be "effective" or "successful"?
“What Does It Mean for an Intervention to ‘Work’? Making Sense of Conflicting Treatment Outcomes for Youth Facing Emotional Problems” (Hess & Lacasse, 2011)
Are there ways to improve our public mental health conversation?
“A Dialogue About the U.S. Dialogue on Mental Health: Exploring the Nature, Scope, and Implications of the Conversation” (Hess, Decker, Lacasse & Foster, 2016, Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry).