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 hospital for long time after discharge they would tend to develop maladjustment with their own environment. These patients develop incapacity to interact with the community people and find themselves in awkward position while mixing with the people living in community. In spite of considerable achievement in the field of psychopharmacology a significant number of severely ill psychiatric patients tend to develop refractoriness in their illness. So this group of people are at the risk of developing chronicity and do require prolong inpatient treatment because of the problematic psychopathologies of the illness. Psychosocial rehabilitation is a multidimensional therapeutic measure which requires active participation of many persons, e.g., patients, caregivers, mental health professionals, social network, administration and policy makers, so forth. Psychosocial rehabilitation is not only a therapeutic endeavour but in true sense it has some reformatory connotation too.