CFRP and CPRP Exam Study Guide: Best
Practices in Psychiatric Rehabilitation
In psychiatric rehabilitation, we recovery - a life of meaning and purpose for people who live
define the desired outcome as with mental health conditions.
Demonstrate that the practice does achieve the outcome
To know whether a practice is
desired. When a certain threshold of research evidence is
effective, research and
reached, showing that one practice has better outcomes
evaluation must:
than alternatives, the practice is evidence-based.
Specific interventions and service models that have been
Evidence-Based Practices:
shown effective through multiple high-quality research
studies by different research teams
Those approaches, tools, and techniques that are recognized
Best Practices:
as desirable and effective, but have not yet been studied
adequately and so lack evidence.
1. Services that are person-centered
2. Services focused on full integration and participation in
a person's community of choice.
The Four Over-Arching
3. Vigilance and activism to combat prejudice and discrimination.
Themes of Psychiatric 4. Effective and ongoing training that is relevant to the
Rehabilitation: field and targeted towards developing the attitudes,
knowledge, and skill needed to be an effective psychiatric
rehabilitation practitioner.
Person-Centered Services are Self-determination, choice, and promote individual responsibility.
Built On:
Service Plans in Psychiatric Define and achieve goals that are personally relevant and valuable.
Rehabilitation are Designed
to:
Assessment and Interventions in The skills and supports needed to achieve personal goals.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Target:
Psychiatric Rehabilitation the whole of a person and what is needed to promote overall
Services focus on: wellness in all life domains.
,Community is is a Physical location as well as a sense of belonging.
comprehensive concept
encompassing a
use their services to build a larger network of natural
Psychiatric Rehabilitation have supports who are not connected to the mental health
historically done well with system. A focus on community integration requires attending
creating community within their to social relationships, recreational activities, and
own walls, but have done less spiritual/religious communities for those who seek them
well with helping people as well as helping people access non- segregated housing,
supporting employment, and providing the
support/opportunity for further education.
small scale and a daily basis. It is not only represented in
Activism is needed on a: large and organized protests or advocacy campaigns,
although such larger efforts are often critical to improving
services, increasing opportunity, and influencing policy.
community acceptance and understanding in local
Psychiatric Rehabilitation neighborhoods, but also on improving the attitudes of
Practitioners need to work service provider colleagues who dwell on symptoms,
on: believe in an overly pessimistic prognosis, and fail to see
the person behind the disability.
Training requires identifying knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for a particular job as
and addressing the well as on the foundational competencies of psychiatric
rehabilitation.
- Service planning
What are the primary
- Assessment
components of the person-
- Interventions
centered process?
What Psychiatric instinct or tradition, but should be grounded in what we know
Rehabilitation Specialists do for sure works in research.
should not be based on:
providing concrete evidence that recovery is real by
Peer support and peer-run
offering role models and relationships of mutuality, and
services enrich psychiatric
deep understanding that only comes from shared
rehabilitation by
experience.
Service providers and service culture of origin, cultures of affinity, and the cultures that
users are shaped by their surround them, making multicultural competence a key area
for life-long education and improvement.
policies, regulations, legislation, and lack of funding.
Practitioners are not operating in Addressing system deficits require advocacy, and
a vacuum, but are affected by practitioners need advocacy skills to be a part of the change
effort as well as to teach people using services to
advocate for the changes they would like to see.
, First and foremost in people, with all the complexities and uniqueness that make
everything, including what we each individual and one of a kind with hopes, dreams, and
say, must be recognition that possibilities that are there to discover.
the people using psychiatric
rehabilitation are just that....
For more than 60 years, supporting individual recovery due to its continued ability to
mental health services have expand, develop, and diversify.
focused on ways to support
individuals with psychiatric
disabilities.
Overwhelmingly psychiatric
rehabilitation (psyR) has been
established as one approach
with demonstrated success in
individuals with psychiatric disabilities. Burdened by stigma,
PsyR was born out of the need to
isolation, and poverty, individuals with mental illness
restore health and well-being
generally languished within institutional treatment settings
among
with little or no hope of ever returning to their homes and
communities.
In the late 1940's, a small Their efforts focused on helping people people in recovery
group of individuals with make their way back to live within their home communities,
psychiatric disabilities began return to meaningful work, and re-establish valuable social
to meet informally and focused relationships.
their efforts to organize as a
collective.
Practices in Psychiatric Rehabilitation
In psychiatric rehabilitation, we recovery - a life of meaning and purpose for people who live
define the desired outcome as with mental health conditions.
Demonstrate that the practice does achieve the outcome
To know whether a practice is
desired. When a certain threshold of research evidence is
effective, research and
reached, showing that one practice has better outcomes
evaluation must:
than alternatives, the practice is evidence-based.
Specific interventions and service models that have been
Evidence-Based Practices:
shown effective through multiple high-quality research
studies by different research teams
Those approaches, tools, and techniques that are recognized
Best Practices:
as desirable and effective, but have not yet been studied
adequately and so lack evidence.
1. Services that are person-centered
2. Services focused on full integration and participation in
a person's community of choice.
The Four Over-Arching
3. Vigilance and activism to combat prejudice and discrimination.
Themes of Psychiatric 4. Effective and ongoing training that is relevant to the
Rehabilitation: field and targeted towards developing the attitudes,
knowledge, and skill needed to be an effective psychiatric
rehabilitation practitioner.
Person-Centered Services are Self-determination, choice, and promote individual responsibility.
Built On:
Service Plans in Psychiatric Define and achieve goals that are personally relevant and valuable.
Rehabilitation are Designed
to:
Assessment and Interventions in The skills and supports needed to achieve personal goals.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Target:
Psychiatric Rehabilitation the whole of a person and what is needed to promote overall
Services focus on: wellness in all life domains.
,Community is is a Physical location as well as a sense of belonging.
comprehensive concept
encompassing a
use their services to build a larger network of natural
Psychiatric Rehabilitation have supports who are not connected to the mental health
historically done well with system. A focus on community integration requires attending
creating community within their to social relationships, recreational activities, and
own walls, but have done less spiritual/religious communities for those who seek them
well with helping people as well as helping people access non- segregated housing,
supporting employment, and providing the
support/opportunity for further education.
small scale and a daily basis. It is not only represented in
Activism is needed on a: large and organized protests or advocacy campaigns,
although such larger efforts are often critical to improving
services, increasing opportunity, and influencing policy.
community acceptance and understanding in local
Psychiatric Rehabilitation neighborhoods, but also on improving the attitudes of
Practitioners need to work service provider colleagues who dwell on symptoms,
on: believe in an overly pessimistic prognosis, and fail to see
the person behind the disability.
Training requires identifying knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for a particular job as
and addressing the well as on the foundational competencies of psychiatric
rehabilitation.
- Service planning
What are the primary
- Assessment
components of the person-
- Interventions
centered process?
What Psychiatric instinct or tradition, but should be grounded in what we know
Rehabilitation Specialists do for sure works in research.
should not be based on:
providing concrete evidence that recovery is real by
Peer support and peer-run
offering role models and relationships of mutuality, and
services enrich psychiatric
deep understanding that only comes from shared
rehabilitation by
experience.
Service providers and service culture of origin, cultures of affinity, and the cultures that
users are shaped by their surround them, making multicultural competence a key area
for life-long education and improvement.
policies, regulations, legislation, and lack of funding.
Practitioners are not operating in Addressing system deficits require advocacy, and
a vacuum, but are affected by practitioners need advocacy skills to be a part of the change
effort as well as to teach people using services to
advocate for the changes they would like to see.
, First and foremost in people, with all the complexities and uniqueness that make
everything, including what we each individual and one of a kind with hopes, dreams, and
say, must be recognition that possibilities that are there to discover.
the people using psychiatric
rehabilitation are just that....
For more than 60 years, supporting individual recovery due to its continued ability to
mental health services have expand, develop, and diversify.
focused on ways to support
individuals with psychiatric
disabilities.
Overwhelmingly psychiatric
rehabilitation (psyR) has been
established as one approach
with demonstrated success in
individuals with psychiatric disabilities. Burdened by stigma,
PsyR was born out of the need to
isolation, and poverty, individuals with mental illness
restore health and well-being
generally languished within institutional treatment settings
among
with little or no hope of ever returning to their homes and
communities.
In the late 1940's, a small Their efforts focused on helping people people in recovery
group of individuals with make their way back to live within their home communities,
psychiatric disabilities began return to meaningful work, and re-establish valuable social
to meet informally and focused relationships.
their efforts to organize as a
collective.
