Boston University Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation

Boston University Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation

The Essential Guide to Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practice

William A. Anthony and Marianne D. Farkas

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The Essential Guide to Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practice

William A. Anthony and Marianne D. Farkas

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Audience

Recommended for educators, students, practitioners, supervisors, trainers, and consumers—anyone interested in understanding and serving the needs of persons with psychiatric disabilities. Valuable resource for staff development and for classroom use in courses in rehabilitation counseling, psychology, psychiatry, psychiatric nursing, and social work.

Description

In this recovery era, implementing the process of psychiatric rehabilitation has achieved prominence and importance. The purpose of this Guide is to describe the complexities of the psychiatric rehabilitation process, programs, and principles in a most straightforward and user-friendly way, in order to improve the implementation, practice, and study of psychiatric rehabilitation. To advance your understanding of the psychiatric rehabilitation process, the Guide strives to make the major elements of the psychiatric rehabilitation process, programs, and underlying principles perfectly clear.

Features of the Guide include checklists, examples, forms, and key principles that support effective implementation. Regardless of the program model, setting, or discipline; the psychiatric rehabilitation process effectively helps people living with psychiatric disabilities become more successful and satisfied in living, learning, working, and social environments of their choice.

Citation: Anthony, W. A., & Farkas, M. D. (2011). The Essential Guide to Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practice. Boston, MA: Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation.

Product Details

PDF file: 73 pages
Published: 2011
ISBN: 978-1-878512-51-2

Table of Contents

Preface

Section 1: Introduction

  • Purpose of This Guide
  • Intended Audience for This Guide
  • Underlying Assumptions of This Guide
  • Understanding the Background Psychiatric Rehabilitation
  • Psychiatric Rehabilitation Origins
  • People Who Use Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services
  • Psychiatric Rehabilitation Defined
  • Psychiatric Rehabilitation Process Explained
  • Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program Models, Settings, and Disciplines
  • Psychiatric Rehabilitation Principles
  • The Impact of Psychiatric Rehabilitation on the Mental Health Field
  • Differentiating Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services from other Mental Health Services
  • Psychiatric Rehabilitation as an Evidence-Based Process
  • The Critical Nature of the Helping Relationship
  • The Psychiatric Rehabilitation Process and Medicaid
  • The Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Health Care Reform

Section 2: Process

  • Tracking the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Process
  • Keeping Track of the Service Delivery Process
  • Benefits in Tracking the Service Delivery Process
  • Understanding the Service Delivery Process
  • The Diagnosis-Planning-Intervention (DPI) Process of Psychiatric Rehabilitation
  • An Example of Tracking the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Process
  • How Detailed Must the Tracking Be?
  • What about the Level of Specificity of the Intervention Itself?
  • Tracking DPI Service Processes for Different Services
  • Common DPI Activities across Service Processes
  • Recording the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Process
  • The Importance of Record Keeping
  • Differences Between Tracking and Record Keeping
  • How Detailed Must the Record Keeping Be?
  • Recording the DPI Phases of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Process
  • Record Form for Assessing and Developing Readiness in the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Diagnostic Phase
  • Record form for Setting an Overall Rehabilitation Goal in the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Diagnostic Phase
  • Record forms for Functional and Resource Assessments in the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Diagnostic Phase
  • Record form for Planning and Intervening in the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Planning and Intervention Phases
  • Summary of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Process

Section 3: Programs

  • Fundamental Program Elements
  • Program Mission
  • Program Structure
  • Program Environments
  • Examples of Program Models
  • ACT Program Model
  • Clubhouse Program Model
  • Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Program Model
  • Choose-Get-Keep Program Model
  • Summary of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Programs

Section 4: Principles

  • Practice Principles
  • Recovery Principles
  • Research Principles
  • Leadership Principles

Authors

William Anthony

William A. Anthony, PhD

The retired Executive Director of Boston University’s Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation and professor in the University’s College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. For over 40 years, Dr. Anthony worked in various roles in the field of mental health and psychiatric rehabilitation and was honored for his performance as a researcher, an educator, and a clinician. He was the co-editor of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal. In 1988, Anthony received the Distinguished Services Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness; and in 1992, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the President of the United States for his efforts “promoting the dignity, equality, independence, and employment of people with disabilities.” Dr. Anthony has appeared on ABC’s “Nightline,” which featured a rehabilitation program developed and implemented by Boston University’s Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation. He has authored over 100 articles in professional journals, 16 textbooks, and several dozen book chapters.

Marianne Farkas bio image

Marianne Farkas, ScD

Dr. Farkas contributed to the establishment of the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation. She has been the Co-Principal Investigator of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center since 1994 and a professor in Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Boston University. She has authored and co-authored over 100 articles in professional journals, four textbooks, a dozen book chapters, and nine multi-media training package; and is on a myriad of editorial review boards and advisory boards. Dr. Farkas has been working in various capacities in the field of psychiatric rehabilitation and recovery that have enabled her to promote the use of effective strategies and programs with diverse populations around the globe. She has been the Vice President of the World Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation (WAPR) and the President of the National Association of Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers (NARRTC) and the Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Psychiatric Rehabilitation. She has received numerous awards for her contributions to the field including a Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of “…her outstanding contributions to the pre-eminence and practice of psychosocial rehabilitation.”

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