Concepts for the rehabilitation of the long-term mentally ill in the community.
Grounded theory research of a unique supervised independent living program, Community Bound, generated six empirical concepts: Survival skills, cooperation, hanging out, checking up, backing, and supplementing. These concepts, which combined aspects of activities of daily living and social skills training, need to be further developed; their utility may serve to link clinical practice, the nursing process, and the needs of long-term mentally ill individuals in the community. Forty-three clients and six staff were studied using participant observation and semistructured interviews. A 5-year adjusted recidivism rate of 8.14% serves to provoke critical examination of the underlying processes.
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D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003376:Counseling; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D012951:Socialization