FORUM: PSYCHIATRIC REHABILITATION TODAY Psychiatric rehabilitation today: an overview
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The goal of psychiatric rehabilitation is to help individuals with persistent and serious mental illness to develop the emotional, social and intellectual skills needed to live, learn and work in the community with the least amount of professional support (1). Although psychiatric rehabilitation does not deny the existence or the impact of mental illness, rehabilitation practice has changed the perception of this illness. Enabling persons with persistent and serious mental illness to live a normal life in the community causes a shift away from a focus on an illness model towards a model of functional disability (2). Therefore, other outcome measures apart from clinical conditions become relevant. Especially social role functioning – including social relationships, work and leisure as well as quality of life and family burden – is of major interest for the mentally disabled individuals living in the community.
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