psychiatric rehabilitation

Syllable breakdown

Dictionary meaning

an approach to mental health care that focuses on helping people with serious mental illnesses achieve their personal goals, develop skills and support systems, and participate fully in community life, shifting the focus from symptom reduction alone to recovery, social inclusion, and quality of life; psychiatric rehabilitation draws on supported employment principles, skills training, supported housing, cognitive remediation, family psychoeducation, and self-management support; it emerged from the deinstitutionalisation movement of the 1960s–1980s and from the disability rights movement's insistence that people with psychiatric disabilities have the right to live and participate in their communities; outcomes-based research demonstrates that psychiatric rehabilitation significantly improves employment rates, social functioning, and independent living for people with schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses