Talk:Psychiatric rehabilitation

message: There's three similar pages - Psychosocial rehabilitation, Psychiatric rehabilitation and Recovery model. I think they should either form one page, describing a range of approaches from the psychatric and a focus on function despite illness, through to a full psychosocial recovery goal that isn't necessarily psychiatric. Alternatively maybe two pages would be needed for the psychiatric medical usage separately from the broader, more user-led recovery usage. EverSince 21:45, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Could you clarify in what sense it is a unique model, as opposed to a variant or subset of psychiatric rehabilitation or psychosocial recovery? Even if a merge went ahead, a separate page could still be split off, if the topic was built up enough (currently virtually nothing specific on it). It would be helpful if you could reply, and perhaps make a username for yourself so it's easy to see who's talking. EverSince 13:40, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
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message: Mental illnesses or mental disorders such as "schizophrenia" have a better recovery rates than "heart disease, cancer, or diabetes", however persons suffering from the latter suffer from far less social stigma, prejudice and or discrimination.Psychologyofrecovery 02:31, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fact about Recovery Re: PSR & PsyR 

message: I've now merged psychosocial rehabilitation into this page, keeping virtually all of both. Psychologyofrecovery - having discussed this as above, I actually would be happy whether this page was called psychosocial rehab or psychiatric rehab, if you did want to change around. Also if you did feel that enough separate kinds of content developed for two pages, I don't imagine I'd have a prob with splitting back in to two. I guess the main thing now is to concentrate on improving this and the psychosocial recovery pages. Thanks. EverSince 16:28, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
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message: I don't think this summary is quite right (although it is very close to being 
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kppright): "Rehabilitation work undertaken by psychiatrists, social workers and other mental health professionals seeks to effect changes in a person's environment and in a person's ability to deal with their environment, so as to factiliate improvement in symptoms or personal distress." The part I question is the last phrase "so as to facilitate improvement in symptoms or personal distress." I don't think that this is the ultimate goal of psychiatric rehabilitation professionals, although they may measure for these outcomes, in addition to others (like improved sense of personal satisfaction, reduced hospitalization periods, reduced disability benefits, retention of housing, retention of competitive employment, etc.) The ultimate goal is really more in line with what is written in the opening sentence: "restoration of [independent] community functioning". "Improvement in symptoms or personal distress" is ultimately a treatment goal, but psychiatric rehabilitation is only indirectly related to treatment (i.e. unlike psychiatric medication and psychotherapy--forms of psychiatric treatment--it isn't directly aimed at reducing symptoms). Psychiatric rehabilitation aims to enable and to empower individuals to manage and control their symptoms so that they can attain the social roles of their choice in the community.PeasantScribbler 18:59, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Meant to agree to this also, I think the text should be revised to clarify as above. I would suppose that the improvement of reported life satisfaction and quality of life can be seen as central goals (and in that sense so is the reduction of distress?) but not only or directly through symptom reduction as you say. EverSince 17:39, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
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