"True Healing will only occur when we are acknowledging every aspect of ourselves and treating ourselves accordingly."
- Kate Reardon
Psycho-social rehabilitation (also termed psychiatric rehabilitation or PSR) promotes personal recovery, successful community integration and satisfactory quality of life for persons who have a mental illness or mental health problems. Psycho-social rehabilitation support is collaborative, person directed, and gives the organisation a great structure and framework. We focus on helping individuals develop skills and access resources needed to increase their capacity to be successful and satisfied in the living, working, learning and social environments of their choice and include a wide continum of services and supports.
PSR approaches are evidence-based best and promising practices in the key life domains of Employment, Education, Leisure, Wellness and Basic Living Skills as well as Family Involvement and Peer Support and Peer Delivered services. Because of their demonstrated effectiveness and recovery orientation, these approaches should be widely available to people living with long term mental illness and/or substance use problems.
Distinctive and defining features of PSR approaches:
PSR approaches build upon the assessed strengths of persons rather than their deficits and problems. In other words PSR approaches are strengths based-they are based on the assessment of a person’s strengths as the basis for individualised goal setting and recovery. This is a major difference from traditional, illness-based approaches which focus on problems and deficits.
PSR approaches are collaborative; person directed and individualised. They assist individuals in rediscovering skills and accessing the community resources needed to live successfully and with a self-identified quality of life. Accordingly, PSR approaches involve the client setting goals rather than goals being set by others.
PSR approaches support people to have a meaningful life focus on the determinants of good mental health, including employment, education, social supports, basic living skills, leisure and wellness.
PSR approaches generally place persons in their chosen goal settings such as jobs and housing and then train and support them in those settings. Similarly, other training, such as social skills training takes place in the person’s natural environments.
PSR approaches are supported by scientific evidence as effective such as supported employment and wellness programs, as well as promising practices with emerging evidence, such as peer support programs. PSR approaches promote recovery with full community living and improved quality of life.
5 Nanyuki Road
Sunninghill, Ext 159
Sandton, 2191
Email:
maligay@mokshawellness.co.za
tyron@mokshawellness.co.za
Telephone:
+ 27 83 644 1975
+27 60 986 7684