title: [PASS: a community, system-related program for occupational rehabilitation of chronic psychiatric patients in competitive employment].
abstract: Notwithstanding considerable success, the concepts currently applied by vocational rehabilitation workshops for persons with chronic mental illness are deemed open to criticism in some respects. Presented is the PASS programme, developed on the basis of more than two decades of experience with the clinic's own rehabilitation workshop. The greater part of the five-phase programme no longer occurs within the workshop but is spent at training workplaces with regional firms. A mobile rehabilitation team does not only support the patients at their training facilities but also their colleagues and immediate superiors, who have been prepared for their forthcoming tasks by psychoeducational information meetings. These community-based, ecological system-related aspects of the programme are complemented by repetitive social skills training and group work with relatives. Assessments carried out in each phase provide important decision-making data for programme development and render its scientific evaluation possible. Our experience so far demonstrates the possibility of recruiting enterprises to provide training places.
authors: Sozialpsychiatrische Universitätsklinik Bern, Schweiz.
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Hoffmann
authors: E
authors: E
authors: Siemers
authors: Z
authors: Z
authors: Kupper
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000523:psychology; D000328:Adult; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D016832:Employment, Supported; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational / Q000379:methods*; D012759:Sheltered Workshops; D012931:Social Environment
vernacular_title: PASS: Ein gemeindenahes, systembezogenes Programm zur beruflichen Wiedereingliederung chronisch psychisch Kranker in der freien Wirtschaft.