Psychiatric rehabilitation is a framework for providing services to people with mental illness that encourages adaptive community functioning in all life domains. Despite its well-established inclusion in community mental health treatment programs, psychiatric rehabilitation has received little attention in the discipline-specific social work literature. The philosophical base of psychiatric re...

Background Various occupational inpatient rehabilitation programs are established in Norway. This study aimed to assess change in cardiorespiratory fitness, pain, anxiety, depression, and quality of life in persons on long-term sick leave due to musculoskeletal-, mental or unspecific disorders after participation in multicomponent inpatient occupational rehabilitation. Methods Twenty-five wom...

In South Asia, general hospital psychiatric units (GHPUs) have developed as an alternative to mental hospitals for the provision of comprehensive mental health services, training and research. GHPUs provide clinical care for all types of patients, including those with severe mental illnesses (SMIs). However, psychosocial rehabilitation is often neglected in GHPUs, partly because of the predomin...

Despite developments in mental healthcare over recent decades, there remains a group of people with very complex needs who require lengthy admissions and high levels of support in the community on discharge. This is the group that mental health rehabilitation services focus on. In the context of contemporary mental health services that minimise in-patient lengths of stay, the needs of this grou...

There are data about the positive effect of rehabilitation with postural training in traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients. Brain mechanisms of functional recovery have been investigated insufficiently. In this study, functional recovery was examined in TBI patients with primary motor (20 patients) or higher mental impairment (10 patients)—post-traumatic Korsakov syndrome compared to healthy vo...

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 A...

Content: The virtual study trip to community mental health in Finland includes several examples about how the local mental health services are organised and which methods are used in the coordination and integration processes of services for people with mental illness (e.g., public services, private services, voluntary organisations and other NGOs of and for people with mental illness, psychoso...

The passage of China’s national mental health law on 26 October 2012 by the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC) was a milestone event for patients with mental disorders, for the clinicians who treat them, and for the community at large. Prior to the release of the law, several surveys about the law had been conducted with different target groups in different parts of...

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...