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Social Rehabilitation Through a Community-Based Rehabilitation Lens: Empowerment, Participation and Inclusion of the Elderly Long-Term Unemployed in the Re-employment Process
AbstractThis research examined social rehabilitation in the context of the components of community-based rehabilitation (CBR) through the experiences of elderly long-term unemployed in the re-employment process in Finland. Two questions were posed: ‘What kinds of experiences do the elderly long-term unemployed have of social rehabilitation?’ and ‘What can the key components of CBR—empowerment, participation and inclusion—offer for the re-employment process?’ We analysed social rehabilitation through the experiences of 15 elderly lo ng-term unemployed individuals who had been employed in the intermediate labour ...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - August 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Programs and Suicide
AbstractIn response to the disproportionate number of individuals with mental disorders incarcerated in local jails and prisons, crisis intervention team (CIT) programs were designed to train law enforcement officers to divert mentally ill individuals to mental healthcare resources. CIT programs and researchers soon determined that many CIT encounters involved an individual displaying suicidal behaviors by either threatening or attempting to commit suicide. Using a database containing 3103 St. Louis Area CIT Program encounters in 2005 through 2009, it was determined that many of these individuals displayed suicidal behavio...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - July 27, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Effectiveness of Domestic Skills Training on Well-Being Among the Persons with Mental Illness Attending Psychiatric Rehabilitation Service
AbstractBackgroundThe process of psychiatric rehabilitation is collaborative, person-directed, and individualized. There is need for practice-based evidence for cost effective and resource efficient rehabilitation interventions which can be replicated in resource constrained settings.AimTo examine the effectiveness of domestic skills training on well-being among persons with mental illness attending psychiatric rehabilitation services.MethodsPre-experimental (one group pre-test, post-test) study with purposive sampling was used. 31 persons with mental illness (PWMI) (as per ICD-10) attending psychiatric rehabilitation serv...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - July 27, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

COVID-19 and the Management of Chronic Mental Illnesses
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Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - July 26, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Recovery on the Pitch: Street Football as a Means of Social Inclusion
AbstractThe study contributes to the existing literature on the value of street football teams in recovery, by exploring how persons with mental health and/or substance abuse problems experience participation in street football teams. In total, 51 persons experiencing mental health and/or substance abuse challenges who played in street football teams, in Norway, participated in focus group interviews. The interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data were analyzed using thematic content analysis, and resulted in three major themes: (1) The spirit of the football team, (2) More than just a pitch, and (3) The co...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - July 22, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Community Re-integration of a Person with Schizophrenia and Poor Family Support
AbstractCommunity re-integration is an integral part of treating persons with mental illness. Especially in India, presence of family support facilitates the process of community integration. Several initiatives are available now for effective integration for the homeless mentally ill back to their families, people with severe mental illness in the community and long stay in-patients in mental hospitals. However, in the absence of family support and community resources, community re-integration of a person with severe mental illness, like schizophrenia, can be highly challenging. This case reflects the challenges in the pr...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - July 21, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Replacing Unhealthy EE with Healthy EE in Schizophrenia: Towards a Public Health Model of Cognitive Rehabilitation for Low-Resource Settings
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Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - July 20, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

The Lifetime Prevalence and Factors Associated with Relapse Among Mentally Ill Patients at Jimma University Medical Center, Ethiopia: Cross Sectional Study
This study found more than two-thirds of patients had relapsed. Adherence to medication, functional disability, and having single admission were variables that predict the relapse of mentally ill patients . (Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health)
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - July 19, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Covid-19 Related Psychiatric Disorders and the New Psychosocial Rehabilitation
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Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - July 19, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

A Social Psychiatry Perspective on Journey of Unknown to Known: Re-integrating Homeless Persons with Mental Illness Into Their Family
ConclusionFamily reintegration is possible with collaboration through the various stakeholders such as police, village panchayat, media, unique identity number, and social networks. There is a need to endow community facilities like halfway homes, day-care centres, home-based, and community-based rehabilitation to treat individuals with mental illness. (Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health)
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - July 16, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Responding to COVID-19 in Psychiatric Rehabilitation: Collaboration Is Vital
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Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - July 16, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Considering the Use of the Term ‘Rehab Potential’ within in-patient Mental Health Services: Its Usefulness and the Risks Associated with Getting it Wrong—A Theoretical Perspective
Abstract‘Rehab potential’ is a term that is frequently used within in-patient mental health services as means of predicting one’s potential response to rehabilitation-focused interventions. However, there is no explicit and common understanding of the factors that contribute to concept of rehabilitati on potential within the context of mental health rehabilitation, despite this being such a commonly used phrase. When accurate predictions are made about a person’s perceived rehabilitation potential, it has the power to enhance a person’s rehabilitation process. If these predictions are inaccur ate, they can have n...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - July 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Peer-Based Education Regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - July 8, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Impact of COVID-19 on People with Mental Disabilities in Japan
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Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - June 28, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Remote Psychosocial Rehabilitation (rPSR): A Broad View
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Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - June 25, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research