Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Psychiatric Rehabilitation helps people with mental illness acquire community living skills through a structured program of activities that focus on increasing their level of social competency. Activities focus on, but are not limited to, the following areas: living, learning, work, social and dealing with surroundings in everyday life.
Psych Rehab - What Does It Mean?
What Is Recovery?
Psychiatric Rehabilitation is based on recovery. It is the process of helping an individual who has a psychiatric disability.
Rehabilitation seeks to make changes in a person's surroundings, which include the living, learning, work, and social roles, and also a person's ability to deal with their surroundings and everyday life issues.
Primarily, the Boston University Approach we use helps persons progress through a number of stages including engagement, readiness, choosing and achieving.
What is Recovery, cont'd.
Through different stages, the individual will progress toward getting and keeping the living, learning, working and social environment that they would prefer.
Recovery is not a cure! Recovery is gaining or regaining valued roles in the community by developing a reconstructed meaning and purpose of life beyond mental illness. Recovery involves success and satisfaction in the preferred environmental roles with the least amount of direct practitioner intervention. You can recover while still experiencing symptoms of the illness. RECOVERY HAPPENS!
Who Is Eligible?
- Anyone 18 years or older and a resident
of Greene County
- Presence or history of serious mental
illness including schizophrenia, major
mood disorder, psychotic disorder NOS,
schizoaffective disorder or borderline
personality disorder
- Other diagnoses may be approved by
the managed care organization under
the exception process but persons must
meet all other criteria
- Moderate to severe functional
impairment from a mental illness that
affects one or more one of the
environmental roles: Living, Learning,
Working and Social
- The person must themselves choose
to participate
An interested person can self-refer to Greene Arc, Inc. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program.
Who Is Eligible, cont'd.
They can also be referred by:
- A Family Member
- A Caseworker
- A Mental Health Therapist
- A Psychologist or Psychiatrist
- A Nurse Practitioner
- A Medical Doctor
- Any Hospitalization Program
- If you were recently hospitalized
and will be leaving the hospital,
the staff can refer you
A referral can then be reviewed and a written recommendation must be signed by a Licensed Healing Arts Practitioner, which includes the following:
- Psychologist
- Physician
- Physician's Assistant OR
- Certified Registered Nurse
Practitioner
How To Get Started
Do you know someone who could benefit from our Psychiatric Rehab Program?
We'd love to tell you more about the Program and help you apply!
Contact Jessica Horton, Director of Mental Health at
jhorton@greenearc.org to set up an appointment.
