1. Psychiatric Rehabilitation: .... promotes recovery, full community
integration and improved quality of life for persons who have been
diagnosed with any mental health condition that seriously impairs their
ability to lead meaningful lives. Psychi- atric rehabilitation services are
collaborative, person-directed and individualized. These services are
an essential element of the health care and human services spectrum,
and should be evidenced-based.
2. WRAP: Wellness Recovery Action Plan
3. Assertive Community Treatment (ACT): -an evidence-based practice
that im- proves outcomes for people with severe mental illness who
are most vulnerable to homelessness and hospitalization.
4. Principles of Psych Rehab Groupings: 1-3= Roles of the
Practitioners 4-10= Best Practices in the Field
11-12 PsyR Service Delivery
5. Evidence-Based Practice (EBP): - recognizes the importance of
understand- ing and following research recommendations, while taking
into account the service provider's clinical expertise and the goals,
preferences, interests, values, and characteristics of the people using
the service
6. Empirically Supported Treatment (EST): -a type of intervention that
has been proven effective, such as cognitive behavioral therapy for
treatment of depression.
7. Evidenced-Based Medicine (EBM): -the process an individual
practitioner fol- lows in selecting the appropriate intervention for one
individual diagnosed with a particular condition who is experiencing
specific symptoms.
8. Recovery: ......a deeply personal unique process of changing one's
attitudes, values, feelings, goals, skills, and/or roles. it is a way of
living a satisfying, hopeful, and contributing life even with limitations
,cause by illness. Recovery involves the development of new meaning
and purpose in one's life as one grows beyond the catastrophic effects
of mental illness.
9. Recovery Relating to principles of PsyR: Recovery from mental illness
in- volves much more than recovery from the illness. itself. People with
mental ill- ness(es) may have to recover from the stigma that they
incorporated into their very being; from the iatrogenic effects of
treatment setting; from the lack of recent op- portunities for self-
determination; from the negative side effects of unemployment; and
from crushed dreams. Recover is a complex, time-consuming process.
10. The Eight Essential Features of recover-oriented mental health services-
: 1. Recovery can occur without professional intervention.
2. A common denominator of recovery is the presence of individuals
who believe
, in the person in recovery and will stand by him/her.
3. Recovery as a vision does function as a part of a person's ideas or
theories about "mental illnesses".
4. Recovery occurs despite that mental health symptoms may reoccur.
5. Recovery changes frequency and duration of mental health
symptoms.
6. Recovery is not necessarily a linear process.
7.The consequences of the "illness" (eg. stigma) often can be harder to
overcome than any of its symptoms.
8. Recovery does not suggest that a person never had a mental
illness of never experienced mental health symptoms.
11.Noordsy et al. definition of recovery is centered around what 3
core concepts:: 1. hope 2. taking personal responsibility 3. getting
on with life.
12.Principles of Psychiatric Rehabilitation: 1. Psychiatric rehabilitation
practi- tioners (PRP) convey hope and respect and believe that all
individuals have the capacity for learning and growth.
2. PRP recognize that culture is central to recovery and strive to
ensure that all services are culturally relevant to individuals
receiving services.
3. PRP engage in the processes of informed and shared-decision
making and facilitate partnerships with other people the individual
receiving services has identified
4. PsyR practices build on strengths and capabilities of individuals.
5. PsyR practices are person-centered; they are designed to address
the unique needs of individuals, consistent with their values, hopes,
and aspirations.
6. PsyR practices support full integration of people in recovery into
their com- munities where they exercise their rights of citizenship as
well as to accept the responsibilities and explore the opportunities that
come with being a member of a community and a larger society.