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Recovery has become a core concept in contemporary mental health |
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The service framework for recovery acts as a guide for mental health services |
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The recovery of symptoms and disability will usually align with the recovery of the individual’s sense of self |
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The difference between recovery and rehabilitation is that rehabilitation always involves a specific purpose and goals and recovery does not |
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Psychosocial rehabilitation refers to the restoration of psychological and social functioning |
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Psychosocial Rehabilitation is based on 3 core principles |
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The three systems of the biopsychosocial model operate independently from one another |
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Psychosocial rehabilitation often involves working as part of a multidisciplinary team |
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The focus of psychosocial rehabilitation is on individual functioning and experience rather than physical functioning and illness |
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Evidence based practices are designed to evaluate the generalizability and the causal relationship between intervention and outcome |
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Major mental health conditions often compromise people’s ability to live independently and productively |
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One DALY represents one lost year of healthy life |
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Most people diagnosed with a mental illness are still able to live a ‘normal’ and independent life |
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Secondary symptoms are the primary focus of psychosocial rehabilitation |
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Once identified as mentally ill, society may continue to reject the individual even when their symptoms have subsided |
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Self-neglect is defined as the failure to engage in those self-care actions necessary to maintain a socially acceptable standard of personal and household hygiene |
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Outcomes are usually similar among individuals who are diagnosed with the same mental illness |
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Poor medication compliance is extremely common among individuals with severe mental health issues |
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Substance use significantly increases the risk of relapse and hospitalization in individuals with mental illness |
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Individuals living in developed countries have shown to have better outcomes than individuals living in developing countries |
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The lived experience perspective is constantly being redeveloped by those who have struggled before and those that still struggle with having a mental illness |
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Lived experience knowledge is a clinical perspective |
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Recovery acknowledges that there is no set time or set way to recover |
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It is uncommon for individuals to say that a person is not ready to recovery |
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It is not unusual to hear people talk about their paid workers as being the closest supports they have in their lives |
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Recovery cannot be achieved by anyone other than the individual experiencing the mental illness |
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Feeling a sense of hope is an example of non-recovery work |
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Self-determination, stubbornness, fight, and humour are all characteristics of an individual’s internal active self |
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Seeking treatment compliance has little to do with recovery |
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An individual often does not see their progress in recovery until they can reflect on their recovery journey |
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Psychosocial rehabilitation is also known as psychiatric rehabilitation |
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Psychosocial rehabilitation is a purposeful interpersonal process that involves subjective and objective progress |
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There are five lenses that help to clearly define, operationalize and measure psychosocial rehabilitation |
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It is commonly agreed that recovery is subjective process rather than an event |
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The empirical lens is focused on the rights and values of the person with the mental illness |
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The conceptual lens suggests that psychosocial rehabilitation services should have evidence of collaborative goal striving |
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Assertive community treatment is an example of an evidence based psychosocial rehabilitation intervention |
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The economic lens is focused on the financial and social cost of long term mental illness and its treatment |
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The empowerment lens believes that there should be evidence of advocacy for those people with a mental illness |
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The environmental lens examines how ethnic, cultural, gender, age and linguistic difference impact an individual’s experience with a mental illness |
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There is evidence that the therapeutic alliance may be an important predictor of treatment outcome for people diagnosed with a mental illness |
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Accurate empathy involves the practitioner being able to accurately explain their personal perspective to the client |
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Non-possessive warmth refers to caring, respect, support and valuing the client |
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Unconditional acceptance implies that a practitioner will approve of all a client says or does |
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Negotiating homework such as practicing relaxation is an example of a task |
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The therapeutic changes that result from rehabilitation interventions can be a source of strain on the therapeutic relationship |
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Practitioner attitudes, lack of empathy, and low levels of engagement are major threats to the therapeutic alliance |
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A key part of establishing a working therapeutic alliance is getting agreement about the expectations of therapy |
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Alliance ruptures consist of an impairment or negative fluctuation in the quality of the relationship between client and practitioner |
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Even when successfully resolved, alliance ruptures are detrimental to the client |
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