Psychosocial rehabilitation aims to help people with mental illness develop skills to function in the community and facilitate recovery. It involves identifying and minimizing impairments, disabilities, and handicaps caused by psychiatric symptoms, social disadvantages, and adverse reactions. Approaches include psychoeducation, family support, social skills training, and a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team. The goal is for individuals to participate fully in community life, work, and relationships with appropriate supports. Disability assessments evaluate needs, treatments, and outcomes to set priorities and allocate resources.

2. PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOSOCIAL
REHABILITATION AND DISABILITY ASSESSMENT
PRESENTED BY-
DISHA SINHA
M.SC.NURSING 2nd YEAR
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4. • Rehabilitation work undertaken by rehabilitation professionals, psychiatrists,
social workers and other mental health professionals, like psychologists,
community support workers and occupational therapists seek to affect changes
in a person’s environment and in a person’s ability to deal with his or her
environment, so as to facilitate improvement in symptoms or personal
distresses.
• There is often a focus on challenging stigma and prejudice to enable social
inclusion, on working collaboratively in order to empower clients, and
sometimes on a goal of full psychosocial recovery.

5. DEFINITION
• According to APA, “ the process of enhancing the recovery of individuals with
severe mental illness by teaching or restoring psychological, behavioral, social,
and vocational skills that will enable them to function in their community and
by facilitating that endeavor through a continuum of services such as
psychotherapy, family psychoeducation, illness management, and supported
employment is called psychosocial rehabilitation.”

6. CHARACTERISTICS
1. A person is considered to have disabilities when he or she persistently
cannot perform up to the standards expected by society.
2. Psychiatric patients have three kinds of disabilities:
• Impairment of function directly due to psychiatric symptoms.
• Social disadvantages.
• Adverse psychological reactions.

7. CONTD.
3. Psychiatric rehabilitation includes 2 processes:
• Identifying, preventing, or minimizing the above 3 disabilities.
• Helping the person to develop and use his or her assets.

8. PRINCIPLES
1. Full human capacity is often under-utilised.
2. Equipping people with skills.
3. Self-determination.
4. Services in normal development.
5. Differential care and needs.
6. The commitment of staff.

9. PRINCIPLES
7. No professional barriers or Shields.
8. Early intervention
9. Environment approach.
10. Change in the environment.
11. Work-centred process.
12. No limits to participation.
13. Social rather than a medical model.
14. emphasis on the client’s strength rather than on the pathologies
15. Emphasis on the here and now rather than on the problems of the past

10. APPROACHES TO PSYCHOSOCIAL
REHABILITATION
• Psychoeducation
• Working with families
• Group therapy
• Social skills
• Rehabilitation team

11. STEPS IN PSYCHIATRIC REHABILITATION
Reduction of impairment
Remediation of disabilities through skills
training
Remediation of disabilities through
supportive interventions
Remediation of handicap

12. DISABILITY ASSESSMENT
Disability assessments also called “fit to work”
assessments, take place within a great deal of legal
context that is designed to prevent unfair
discrimination against disabled workers.

13. STEPS OF DISABILITY ASSESSMENT
identifying needs
matching treatments and interventions
measuring outcomes and effectiveness
setting priorities
allocating resources

14. INTERVENTIONS
• Current approaches
• Housing
• Work
• Building relationships
• Keeping relationships
• Participation in community life with full rights

17. CONCLUSION
Mental health problems are common worldwide and the process of taking care in
the long term by the families of the individuals is of the utmost importance. The
correct assessment of the disabilities of the individuals suffering and the right
rehabilitation treatment are very much necessary for the individuals suffering
from mental illness to become independent and earn their livelihoods.

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