The singing-group: a new therapic rehabilitation for mood desorders.

Psychosocial rehabilitation, and choral singing in particular, allow the recovery of lost or compromised ability of patients with mental illness and they facilitate the reintegration of the user in his family and into his social context. The choral singing, used as an operational tool for psychosocial rehabilitation, allowed users of the Day Centre of the Unit of Mental Health Torre del Greco ASL NA 3 South to achieve concrete goals of rehabilitation: improvement of self-care and self-esteem, the management of emotions, the growing of their interests, the integration and socialization overcoming the isolation of their mental suffering. In particular patients with mood disorders have been significantly benefited from the rehabilitation activity. They improved their mood and all the related diseases and the quality of their life with the result of a positive therapeutic implication. The singing group and for some individuals, also psychotherapy and drug therapy, have allowed users to improve their lives and give them a concrete integration into the society. Working in a group with patients, caregivers, family members, volunteers, social workers allowed a consolidated rehabilitation with the passing of time.Using the chorus group "Sing that you go" as an operational tool for psychosocial rehabilitation and therapeutic element we promote the psychological well-being and the enhancement of mood.