Long-Term Clinical Strategies for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 March 2025 | Viewed by 2692
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Rehabilitation, Lentis Psychiatric Institute, Zuidlaren, The Netherlands
Interests: psychiatry; clinical psychology; clinical neuropsychology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
People with the most complex mental health problems (also termed severe mental illness, which refers to the group of people with a diagnosis of a psychotic illness such as schizophrenia or bipolar affective disorder with associated social, cognitive, and functional impairments) often require long-term treatment and support from mental health and social care services that are provided in inpatient units and community settings. Internationally, a variety of approaches have been employed to provide the care that this group requires, including well-defined ‘care pathways’ that support people in moving from more intensively supported settings (such as inpatient units or highly supported housing) to more independent settings over time, and specialist psychiatric rehabilitation programs that deliver evidence-based biopsychosocial interventions. These may include, for example, complex medication regimes, cognitive remediation, social skills training, and various forms of supported employment. Increasingly, it is acknowledged that services supporting people’s rehabilitation should adopt a recovery-based orientation that works collaboratively with service users to identify and achieve their goals.
Accordingly, this Special Issue seeks empirical, practical, and review studies focused on psychiatric rehabilitation interventions, implementation strategies, and service developments that aim to improve clinical and social outcomes for people with complex mental health problems.
Dr. Lisette Van der Meer
Prof. Dr. Helen Killaspy
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- psychiatric rehabilitation
- complex mental health problems
- recovery-oriented care
- implementation
- clinical psychology
- mental health
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