Recovery-oriented care and leadership in mental health nursing

A recovery-oriented mental health service actively involves consumers as fully as possible in all aspects of their care, empowering them to establish and strive for individual goals and to develop self-efficacy. Whilst recovery centres on enhancing selfreliance, self-responsibility and self-care, individuals require support from a range of people and services to achieve recovery. In this context, recovery-oriented mental health care involves the sharing of power and decision-making. This column considers the role of transformational leadership in the recovery orientation of services and further develops the themes explored in a previous editorial (Cleary et al., 2016) which highlighted the need for consumer involvement and recovery oriented leadership.