Psychiatric rehabilitation programs: putting concepts into practice?
Mental health settings serving the severely psychiatrically disabled or the long-term chronic client have begun developing a rehabilitation orientation in an attempt to increase their effectiveness with this group. The authors have, in an earlier work, described basic elements of a rehabilitation program. These elements have been refined. Forty rehabilitation-oriented community and hospital agencies were assessed in terms of the presence or absence of these elements of a rehabilitation approach. Results indicate that the programs in the agencies clearly value client involvement and a program focus on improving skill and resource utilization. These concepts, however, are only beginning to be systematically implemented in practice.
Farkas
M D
MD
Boston University, Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, MA 02215.
Cohen
M R
MR
Nemec
P B
PB
D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012917:Social Adjustment; D014481:United States