Psychiatric Rehabilitation

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.    

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Primarily, the Boston University Approach we use helps persons progress through a number of stages including engagement, readiness, choosing and achieving.

Through different stages, the individual will progress toward getting and keeping the living, learning, working and social environment that they would prefer.

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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!

- Anyone 18 years or older and a resident

   of Greene County

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- 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

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- Moderate to severe functional

   impairment from a mental illness that

   affects one or more one of the

   environmental roles: Living, Learning,

   Working and Social

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- The person must themselves choose

   to participate

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An interested person can self-refer to Greene Arc, Inc. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program.

They can also be referred by:

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               - 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:

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               - Psychologist

               - Physician

               - Physician's Assistant OR

               - Certified Registered Nurse

                  Practitioner