Impact

We started with our first camp in 2013 and since then Recovery Camp and its programs have had an incredible impact on mental health, and mental health education.

This impact has been documented in over 30 peer-reviewed research articles, and recognised in the Australian Government Productivity Commission’s Mental Health Inquiry Report.

Our camps and other programs have been attended by 900 people with lived experience, as well as provided transformative lived experience education to over 1500 health students.

Research

Student Outcomes

Moxham, L., Roberts, M., Yousiph, T., Lewer, K., Jay, E. K., Robson, G., & Patterson, C. (2024). “This should be a compulsory placement for all nursing students”: An evaluation of pre-registration nursing students’ perceptions of learning on a mental health clinical placement. Nurse Education in Practice79, 104077. 
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2024.104077

Patterson, C., Roberts, M., Yousiph, T., Robson, G., Lewer, K., Jay, E. K., & Moxham, L. (2024). Non-traditional mental health clinical placements: An effective means for reducing self-stigma in pre-registration nursing students. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 10.1111/jpm.13093. Advance online publication. 
https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.13093

Patterson, C., Roberts, M., Perlman, D., & Moxham, L. (2023). The Role of Self-Determined Motivation and the Potential for Pre-registration Student Learning: A Comparative Study within a Mental Health Clinical Placement. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 44(7), 657–662. 
https://doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2023.2222829

Perlman, D., Moxham, L., Patterson, C., Tapsell, A., & Keough, E. (2022). The influence of a self-determination theory grounded clinical placement on nursing student’s therapeutic relationship skills: A pre-test/post-test study. InternationalJournal of Mental Health Nursing, 31(2), 305–312. 
https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.12957

Tapsell, A., Patterson, C., Moxham, L., & Perlman, D. (2021). Informing Work-Integrated Learning through Recovery Camp. International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 22(1), 73-81. 
https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1286249

Consumer Outcomes

Jay, E. K., Moxham, L., Roberts, M., Yousiph, T., Robson, G., Lewer, K., & Patterson, C. (2024). Contributing to ‘a sense of purpose’ – Evaluating consumer recovery progress after attending a therapeutic-recreation intervention programme: A quantitative analysis. The International journal of social psychiatry70(5), 926–932. https://doi.org/10.1177/00207640241242024

Patterson, C., Roberts, M., Yousiph, T., Robson, G., Lewer, K., Jay, E. K., & Moxham, L. (2024). Connection and recovery in the COVID-19 age: An analysis of changes in goal-setting throughout the pandemic by consumers living with enduring mental illness. International journal of mental health nursing33(1), 166–174. 
https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.13232

Jay, E. K., Moxham, L., & Patterson, C. (2021). Using an arts-based approach to explore the building of social capital at a therapeutic recreation camp. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing30(4), 1001–1009.
 
https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.12856

Perlman, D., Taylor, E., Molloy, L., Brighton, R., Patterson, C., & Moxham, L. (2018). A Path Analysis of Self-determination and Resiliency for Consumers Living with Mental Illness. Community Mental Health Journal54(8), 1239–1244. 
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-018-0321-1

Picton, C., Patterson, C., Moxham, L., Taylor, E. K., Perlman, D., Brighton, R., & Heffernan, T. (2018). Empowerment: The experience of Recovery Camp for people living with a mental illness. Collegian, 25(1), 113–118. 
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colegn.2017.04.005

Awards

Recovery Camp has received a number of awards including:

Our Aim

Recovery Camp aims to improve mental health, and mental health care. We want impact now!

Our mission is about you!

Through your connection with Recovery Camp we hope you realise your personal strengths, and your contribution to the mental health and recovery of others.

Recovery Camp

Recovery Camp has been a transformative force in the mental health landscape over the past decade. Celebrating our 40th camp in 2023, this milestone reflects our premier program’s enduring success and sustained impact.

We are driven to broaden our reach and impact, to improve mental health and mental health education, nationally.

Contact us for information about camps in 2024 and 2025.

Acknowledgement of Country

Recovery Camp acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land where we work and live. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. We celebrate the stories, culture and traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders of all communities who also work and live on this land.

Recovery Camp welcomes all people irrespective of ethnicity, lifestyle choice, faith, sexual orientation and gender identity.

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