Adjunctive treatments are complementary therapies used alongside traditional mental health treatments to enhance recovery outcomes. Nurses play a vital role in the implementation of adjunctive treatments for mental illness.

Recovery from mental illness is often hindered by several barriers, including stigma and discrimination, lack of access to care, financial constraints, and limited social support. Stigma can lead to shame and reluctance to seek help, while financial and geographical barriers can prevent access to necessary treatments.

adjunctive treatments — range of alternative treatments designed to enhance the impact of primary treatments, improving overall mental health outcomes. residual symptoms — such as fatigue, anxiety, and sleep disturbances that are commonly left over after treatment and are associated with relapse and disability. medicalization — process by which mental health issues are framed and treated primarily as medical conditions. anti-psychiatry movement — political/social and intellectual phenomenon that emerged in the 1960s as a response to perceived injustices and inadequacies within the traditional psychiatric system.