Recovery College Philosophy — MRCPsych Paper B MCQ
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Educational content. Not a substitute for clinical judgement or local policy.
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Correct answer: C — Programmes co-produced and co-delivered by people with lived experience and professionals using recovery principles
Explanation lettering: E = shown as A · D = shown as B · B = shown as C · C = shown as D · A = shown as E
B is correct. Recovery colleges use an educational rather than a conventional clinical-treatment model. Their defining feature is co-production: people with lived experience and people with professional expertise contribute on equal terms to designing and delivering courses. The curriculum is recovery-oriented, supporting strengths, hope, self-management, opportunity and personal agency. Option A omits lived-experience expertise and retains a traditional professional hierarchy. Option C describes medication monitoring, which may be discussed within a course but is not the purpose of a recovery college. Option D incorrectly restricts the model to inpatient care. Option E describes a specific psychological treatment; recovery-college courses may cover psychological approaches but are not synonymous with therapist-led CBT groups.
Reference: Royal College of Psychiatrists. Person-centred care: implications for training in psychiatry, College Report CR215, Appendix: Co-production at the Recovery College. 2018. https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/improving-care/better-mh-policy/college-reports/college-report-cr215.pdf