Interaction, Ideology, and Practice in Mental Health Rehabilitation

The Use of Psychosocial Rehabilitation in Mental Health Issues

Mental rehabilitation can include a range of disabling conditions, from severe and enduring psychotic or bipolar disorders to more transient affective disorders. The concept of rehabilitation reflects the concept of disability. If the concept of mental illness is viewed as a mechanism for social control, then we can say that one of the most powerful aspects of the medicalization of the individu...

The Effect of Mental and Physical Practice on Standing Balance:The Orthopaedic Rehabilitation Approach

The researches have shown that mental practice has the effective role in aquisition of motor skills. On the other hand in orthopaedic rehabilitation, balance exercise is used effectively to improve proprioception impairment that resulting from joint injuries. Little work has been done to evaluate and compare the effects of mental (M), Physical (P), and mental - physical (MP) practice on standin...

Mental health policy and practice

The book provides a well documented basic overview of the main developments and dilemmas in the field. It contains eleven chapters, the first sketching conceptualisations of mental illness and public health issues over time, especially the divide between the medical model and the social causation model developed in antipsychiatry. The second chapter resumes developments in policy making on stra...

Conceptualising Recovery in Mental Health Rehabilitation

Mental health assessment in rehabilitation research.

Assessment in mental health research has evolved from focusing on symptoms and diagnosis to addressing a broad range of change, including psychosocial functioning. This is consistent with developments in the areas of psychosocial rehabilitation and the increase in recovery-oriented intervention models for mental disorders. We reviewed the status of assessment in mental health research, providin...