The Psychiatric Rehabilitation of African Americans With Severe Mental Illness

Many individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) have a unique set of disabilities that interfere with their life goals. In addition, many of these people must also deal with another obstacle, the stigma associated with mental illness. The purpose of this paper is to address how this population has been stigmatized, both externally and internally. The focus will then be turned to psychiatric rehabilitation, an effective means of de-stigmatizing the lives of people with SMI.

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Recent Advances in Psychiatric Rehabilitation for Patients with Severe Mental Illness

Harvard Review of Psychiatry ◽

10.3109/10673229709000298 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 123-137 ◽

Cited By ~ 48

Author(s):

Kim T. Mueser ◽

Robert E. Drake ◽

Gary R. Bond

Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Severe Mental Illness ◽

Psychiatric Rehabilitation ◽

Recent Advances

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Effectiveness of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Approaches for Employment of People with Severe Mental Illness

Journal of Disability Policy Studies ◽

10.1177/104420739901000104 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 18-52 ◽

Cited By ~ 51

Author(s):

Gary R. Bond ◽

Robert E. Drake ◽

Deborah R. Becker ◽

Kim T. Mueser

Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Severe Mental Illness ◽

Psychiatric Rehabilitation

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Aquatic activity and emotional experience in adults with severe mental illness

American Journal of Recreation Therapy ◽

10.5055/ajrt.2014.0074 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 7

Author(s):

Alysha A. Walter, MS, CTRS ◽

Bryan P. McCormick, PhD, CTRS

Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Severe Mental Illness ◽

Positive Emotion ◽

Positive Emotions ◽

Negative Emotion ◽

Mental Health Center ◽

Emotional Experience ◽

Psychiatric Rehabilitation ◽

Physical Exertion ◽

Potential Effect

This study examined the relationship of aquatic activity to positive and negative emotion in individuals with a severe mental illness (SMI). Individuals with SMI have been found to experience decreased positive emotions and higher negative emotions as compared to controls. It was hypothesized that aquatic activity participation would be associated with greater positive emotion and lower negative emotion post participation. Eighteen participants with a severe mental illness were recruited from a community mental health center. The study employed a pre-post design with a structured aquatic activity designed for moderate physical exertion. Participants demonstrated statistically significant increase in positive emotion and decrease in negative emotion pre to post activity. The findings of this study provide support for the potential effect of aquatic activities in psychiatric rehabilitation.

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Psychosocial rehabilitation

Landmark Papers in Psychiatry ◽

10.1093/med/9780198836506.003.0014 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 229-242

Author(s):

Mariam Ujeyl ◽

Wulf Rössler

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Severe Mental Illness ◽

Social Inclusion ◽

Psychiatric Rehabilitation ◽

Symptom Control ◽

Psychosocial Rehabilitation ◽

Models Of Care ◽

Community Treatment ◽

Mental Health Systems

Psychosocial rehabilitation (synonymously referred to as psychiatric rehabilitation) is a field and service within mental health systems that shifted the treatment focus from symptom control to social inclusion by functional recovery. It aims to help individuals with severe mental illness live in the community as independently as possible. Psychosocial rehabilitation (PR) developed in the 1970s, when psychiatric reform, including the process of deinstitutionalization, had already paved the way to more responsive and balanced provision of mental health care. This chapter outlines major developments in and obstacles to the reform in European and other high-income countries. It introduces the evolving principles of PR and presents evidence on important models of care, such as assertive community treatment (ACT) and individual placement and support (IPS), that share the objectives of PR to improve integration of people with severe mental illness into the labour market and society in general.

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