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KMID : 0438319960050010081
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Pusan Journal of Psychiatry
1996 Volume.5 No. 1 p.81 ~ p.88
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Psychiatric Rehabilitation for Social Recovery of Chronic Mental Patients
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Abstract
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Psychiatric rehabilitation include treatment techniques, facilities and organizations except pharmacotherapy that were being reported as clinical and empirical evidence of efficacy in the social recovery for chronic mental patients. The major
component
of psychiatric rehabilitation were social skills training, patient education family education and management, supportive psychotherapy, occupational therapy, art therapy, crisis intervention, vocational rehabilitation, case management, partial
hospitaliztion, community mental treatment, and patients' and family self-help group.
Psychiatric rehabilitation can be conceptualized by stress-vulnerability-coping models and take the role as protective factors against the impact on impairment, disability, and handicap which are moderated by vulnerability and stressors .To
maximize the
efficacy of psychiatric rehabilitation, it should be conducted under the condition such as effective pharmacotherapy, functional assessment, various treatment modalities, team approach, and supportive environment. The prime effects of psychiatric
rehabilitation were being reported to decrease the relapse and hospialization rate and to faciliated social recovery for chronic mental patients.
The current state of psychiatric rehabilitation in Korea is rudimentary. According to the Korean psychiatrists' view, the largest obstacle to the development of psychiatric rehabilitation is the development of psychiatric rehabilitation is the
lack
of
resources(presonnel, money, time). To overcome those nagative factors, we should to guarantee the support of medical insurance system, to develop the specific role of the mental health professionals and the volunteer system, to prove and
demonstrate the
effectiveness and efficacy of psychiatric rehabilitation for the chronic mental patients to obviate the hospital managers' and governmental mental health policy makers' doubtful attitude, and to support the organization of the academic groups,
family
advocacy group, and patient self-help group.
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