Back إعادة تأهيل نفسي Arabic Rehabilitation psychisch Kranker German Rehabilitación psicosocial Spanish Réhabilitation psychosociale French שיקום פסיכיאטרי HE 自立支援医療 (精神通院医療) Japanese 정신재활 Korean Психијатриска рехабилитација Macedonian Rehabilitatie (psychiatrie) Dutch Psicologia da reabilitação Portuguese
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Psychiatric rehabilitation, also known as psychosocial rehabilitation, and sometimes simplified to psych rehab by providers, is the process of restoration of community functioning and well-being of an individual diagnosed in mental health or emotional disorder and who may be considered to have a psychiatric disability.
Society affects the psychology of an individual by setting a number of rules, expectations and laws. Psychiatric rehabilitation work is undertaken by rehabilitation counselors (especially the individuals educated in psychiatric rehabilitation), licensed professional counselors (who work in the mental health field), psych rehab consultants or specialists (in private businesses), university level Masters and PhD levels, classes of related disciplines in mental health (psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists, occupational therapists) and community support or allied health workers represented in the new direct support professional workforce in the United States (e.g., psychiatric aides).
These workers seek to effect changes in a person's environment and in a person's ability to deal with his/her environment, so as to facilitate improvement in symptoms or personal distress and life outcomes. These services often "combine pharmacologic treatment (often required for program admission), independent living and social skills training, psychological support to clients and their families, housing, vocational rehabilitation and employment, social support and network enhancement and access to leisure activities." The key role of professionals is to generate insight about the illness with the help of demonstration of symptoms and prognosis to the patients.[1] There is often a focus on challenging stigma and prejudice to enable social inclusion, on working collaboratively in order to empower clients, and sometimes on a goal of full recovery. The latter is now widely known as a recovery approach or model.[2] Recovery is a process rather than an outcome. It is a personal journey that is about the rediscovery of self in the process of learning to live with the debilitations of the illness rather than being defined by illness with hope, planning and community engagement.[3][full citation needed]
Yet, new in these fields is a person-centered approach to recovery[4][page needed] and client-centered therapy based upon Carl Rogers.[5][page needed] and user-service direction (as approved in the U.S. by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services).
- ^ "Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services". Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (PDF). Washington, DC: United States Department of Health and Human Services. 1999. p. 287. ISBN 978-0-16-050300-9. OCLC 166315877.
- ^ "Social inclusion and recovery" (PDF). Australian Department of Health and Ageing.
- ^ King, R. et al., 2007
- ^ Rudnick, Abraham; Roe, David, eds. (2011). Serious Mental Illness: Person-centered Approaches. London: Radcliffe. ISBN 9781846193064. OCLC 1846193060.
- ^ Raskin, Nathaniel J. (2004). Client-Centered Therapy and the Person-Centered Approach. Ross-on-Wye, UK: PCCS Books. ISBN 9781898059578. OCLC 56955949.