Social Skills Training in Chronically Mentally Ill Patients under Psychosocial Rehabilitation

[Social support of chronically mentally ill patients].

AIM Assessment of the social support system of mentally ill persons covered by a local rehabilitation programme situated in Targówek, Warsaw. METHOD The sample consists of 92 participants with serious mental illness. Bizoń's Social Support Inventory and Social Support Map were used. RESULTS Patients' social networks were small (9 persons in average) but had a broad scope of functions. Thera...

Psycho Social Rehabilitation of Long Stay Mentally ill Patients

Over the past few decades there has been a surge in the field of psycho social rehabilitation for the mentally ill patients who have developed chronicity. Basic objective of psycho social rehabilitation is to reduce the deleterious effect of psychiatric disorder on the sufferers’ socio-occupational functioning and life skills. It was seen previously that patients who had been put in a mental ho...

Community care for the chronically mentally ill.

This article has presented the background, history, examples, and analyses of community care programs for the chronically mentally ill. From these data, it is concluded that such programs are as if not more effective an cost-efficient than conventional inpatient programs plus conventional follow-up for this population. The future, however, may depend much more on current political and economic ...

Rehab rounds: Social skills training to help mentally ill persons find and keep a job.

Involuntary outpatient commitment for the chronically mentally ill.