Humans ; Mental Disorders ; psychology ; rehabilitation ; Music Therapy ; Phobic Disorders ; psychology ; rehabilitation ; Self Concept ; Treatment Outcome

Traditionally, clinicians and healthcare users alike use the term "recovery" to imply a return to a premorbid state. This form of clinical recovery is objective, measureable and is a clear health outcome. In the past decade, an alternative to clinical recovery, also known as personal recovery, has gained traction in mental health and has impacted numerous mental health systems. Originally, personal recovery was conceptualised as an individually unique ongoing process for individuals with serious mental illness that emphasises on growth and potential for recovery, but it has also been proposed to be a clinical outcome for mental health professionals. In this commentary, we discuss the differences in the 2 models of recovery and attempt to illustrate the concepts behind personal recovery so as to clarify its usage in people with serious mental illnesses.
Humans ; Mental Disorders ; rehabilitation ; Recovery of Function ; Resilience, Psychological

The Author reviewed the literature about quality of life in order to obtain clearer prospect of the following questions what is quality of life? why is quality of life important in the treatment and rehabilitation of the mentally ill? ; how do we measure quality of life? ; given the differences in the culture and mental health service delivery system between foreign county and Korea, what effect on qualify of life in patients and families will the changes in psychosocial rehabilitation movement have in Korea?
Humans ; Korea ; Mental Disorders ; Mental Health Services ; Mentally Ill Persons ; Quality of Life* ; Rehabilitation

OBJECTIVES: There has been long lasting trend of deinstitutionalization and public health centered care in management of individuals with disabling mental illness. We aimed to investigate current vocational rehabilitation state and effectiveness of system in korea. METHODS: We carried basic survey via telephone and e-mail beforehand to figure out how many and which institutions are operating vocational rehabilitation programs to psychiatric patients. A questionnaire packages were sent to total of 108 institutions in Korea which were operating occupation rehabilitation program. RESULTS: Of 108 institutions, 40.74% were returned with answers. The person in charge of vocational rehabilitation at each institution was mainly mental health social worker(48.8%), and the budget under \1,000,000 was the majority(61.5%) among surveyed institutions. The most commonly used vocational rehabilitation programs was case management(23.1%), followed by psychosocial rehabilitation program(21.2%), and on-the-job training(17.9%). The most effective program was case management(27.4%), followed by psychosocial rehabilitation program(19.8%), on-the-job training(17.9%). The main barrier of occupation rehabilitation to be conducted widely was ‘worries about being excluded from beneficiary of National Basic livelihood Protection Act’. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that, in spite of high demand in vocational rehabilitation programs, government financial support is still lacking.
Budgets ; Deinstitutionalization ; Electronic Mail ; Financial Support ; Government Programs ; Humans ; Korea ; Mental Disorders ; Mental Health ; Occupations ; Psychiatric Rehabilitation ; Public Health ; Rehabilitation ; Rehabilitation, Vocational ; Schizophrenia ; Telephone

Therapeutic social environments contribute to the successful treatment and rehabilitation for patients with schizophrenia. However, social stigmata of psychiatric disorder in our society have kept away schizophrenic patients from their recovery and adaptation. Many persons have thought that psychiatric patients are more violent and criminal because of overwhelming prejudice on untreated or mistreated patients with schizophrenia. The purpose of this review is to propose the new and updated fundamentals of our knowledge on the relationship between schizophrenia and violence. In 1980s, many researchers have a belief that rates of criminal behavior vary independently on the rates of mental disorders. The following scientific studies on various population and meta-analyses of relevant data, overall violence rate have been higher in patients with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders than in healthy controls. Even though schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders are associated with increased risk of homicide, the association has been not attributed to the psychopathology limited to schizophrenia. Most of all, co-occurrence of substance abuse has played an important role in increasing the possibility of violent behavior. The severe violent offending has been inclined to occur during the early period of psychotic episode before beginning the psychiatric treatment. Thus, most of the violent offending of schizophrenia patient can be prevented by prompt therapeutic interventions and treatments.
Christianity ; Criminals ; Homicide ; Humans ; Mental Disorders ; Prejudice ; Psychopathology ; Psychotic Disorders ; Rehabilitation ; Schizophrenia* ; Social Environment ; Social Stigma ; Substance-Related Disorders ; Violence*

Improving mental health and reducing the burden of mental illness are complementary strategies which, along with the treatment and rehabilitation of people with mental disorders, significantly improve population health and well-being. A Institute of Medicine report describes a range of interventions for mental disorders that included treatment and maintenance, reserving the term "prevention" for efforts that occur before onset of a diagnosable disorder. Mental health problems affect 10-20% of children and adolescents worldwide. Despite their relevance as a leading cause of health-related disability and their long lasting consequences, the mental health needs of children and adolescents are neglected. Early intervention can help reduce the significant impacts that children and adolescents with serious mental health problems may experience. Screening is the first step in early intervention, recognizing emotional and behavioral problems and providing help at an early stage. It is essential to implement early intervention in a sensitive and ethical manner to avoid any of the negative outcomes.
Adolescent* ; Child* ; Early Intervention (Education) ; Humans ; Institute of Medicine (U.S.) ; Mass Screening ; Mental Disorders ; Mental Health* ; Primary Prevention ; Rehabilitation ; Resin Cements

Assessment of mental health service refers to the process of using the indicator system and methods to reflect the quality or performance of mental health. Mental health evaluation can effectively promote the development of mental health system and service quality. Scientific and comprehensive indicator system is key to assessment. After long-term practice and exploration, there have been many successful assessment schemes in foreign countries, which may be used in establishing the assessment system and screening indicators in China.
China ; Health Status Indicators ; Humans ; Mental Disorders ; rehabilitation ; Mental Health Services ; standards ; Quality Indicators, Health Care ; Surveys and Questionnaires

OBJECTIVES: This research was performed in order to develop the social perception scale which could detect the deficits of the social perception, composed of visual perception and contextual perception, in the patients with schizophrenia and might have the desirable reliability and discriminating power between the patients with schizophrenia and the normal controls, and so as to be appropriate to the schizophrenics' cognitive rehabilitation strategy of Brenner, et al. METHODS: We selected 10 photographs among 30 photographs which could show the variable social situations according to the consensus of the staff members of the Integrated Psychological Therapy. Then we developed the questions, composed of visual perception subscale and contextual perception subscale, which we called preliminary social perception scale. We tested the above scale to the 20 patients with schizophrenia in the chronic mental hospital. Then we tested the above scale to both the 20 patients meeting DSM-IV criteria for schizophrenia in the closed ward of the university psychiatric hospital and the 20 normal controls. We developed the final social perception scale to exclude the items of inadequate reliability. We compared the item difficulties of social perception scale between the patients in the chronic mental hospital and those in the university psychiatric hospital. finally, we compared the scores of social perception scale between the patients with schizophrenia and the normal controls. RESULTS: The final 6 items were selected to become the social perception scale according to the values of the item-total correlation, test-retest reliability, and interrater reliability. The final social perception scale showed similar rank of item difficulties between two groups with schizophrenia. The patient group differed significantly fiom the normal control group on the scores of contextual perception subscale(t=-3.09, p<.01) and the total scores of social perception scale(t= -3.33, p<.01). CONCLUSION: This study suggests that the above social perception scale which has excellent internal consistency, test-retest reliability, interrater reliability and the discriminating power. This scale can be applied to both the cognitive rehabilitation strategy in the patients with schizophrenia and the evaluation of the effectiveness of the cognitive rehabilitation.
Consensus ; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ; Hospitals, Psychiatric ; Humans ; Rehabilitation* ; Schizophrenia* ; Social Perception* ; Visual Perception

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice ; Humans ; Mental Disorders ; diagnosis ; rehabilitation ; therapy ; Psychiatry

OBJECTIVES: This study investigated the actual state of people with mental disorders in Korea, in order to present an alternative proposal for their work fitness and vocational rehabilitation. METHODS: The authors conducted this study through a review of statistics on the prevalence of mental disorder, labor laws, and the literatures related with work fitness and vocational rehabilitation of people with mental disorders. RESULTS: According to recent surveys, about 3 million people in Korea are likely to have mental disorders which could lead to discrimination in social life and dishonor in occupational career, either in the present or near future. Therefore, evaluation of work fitness and vocational rehabilitation for persons with mental disorders are important. At present, work fitness for psychiatric patients is evaluated without suitable guidelines regarding the kinds and severity of mental disorders that impede work capacity. Furthermore, mental disorder-specific fitness for work is not under consideration. CONCLUSION: It is true that most psychiatric patients have some limitation in performing their job. However, judging from the results of some research, proper displacement, apprehension of co-workers, and adjusted workplace could help them complete their tasks properly despite their troublesome psychiatric symptomatology. The government must help all citizens to do their best in their social life, and show a deep interest in the employment of all disabled people including those with psychiatric disorders. Above all we have to change our attitudes and preconceptions against people with mental disorders. Some labor laws, which presently impede employment of people with psychiatric disorders, need to be revised in their favor. Future work capacity evaluation should be done on the basis of ability to function in the workplace rather than symptomatology.
Discrimination (Psychology) ; Employment ; Humans ; Jurisprudence ; Korea* ; Mental Disorders* ; Prevalence ; Rehabilitation, Vocational ; Work Capacity Evaluation