The goal of psychiatric rehabilitation is to ensure that persons with a psychiatric disability
can perform those cognitive, emotional, social, intellectual, and physical skills needed to …

Psychiatry now recognizes the critical need to integrate psychopharmacological treatments
with psychotherapeutic supports and services for adults with severe psychiatric disorders to …

The time is right for recovery from serious mental disorders. Mental health professionals and
state and local mental health agencies are responding to a national call for action on …

This chapter discusses mental illness as a disabling condition that requires rehabilitation
services in order to maximize a disabled person's functioning in the community. The …

Since 1979, Boston University's Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation has provided
leadership in accumulating a body of knowledge relevant to the rehabilitation of persons …

Psychiatric rehabilitation treatment has a unique and complementary contribution to make to
the treatment of persons with a severe psychiatric disability. However, the development of …

This article highlights key characteristics of severe, long-term mental illness which present
challenges for rehabilitation professionals. The authors discuss recovery, a biopsychosocial …

This comprehensive, authoritative text provides a state-of-the-art review of current
knowledge and best practices for helping adults with psychiatric disabilities move forward in …

Interventions that focus directly on functional impairments related to mental illnesses are
termed psychiatric rehabilitation. Research demonstrates that rehabilitation services are …

The financial, personal, and societal costs of severe mental illness are extraordinarily high.
Individuals suffering from schizophrenia occupy 25 percent of all hospital beds and account …