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What is Psychosocial Rehabilitation?Psychosocial Rehabilitation is a set of principles and methodologies for supporting people to recover from serious and persistent mental illness RehabilitationIn the PSR community, "rehabilitate" means helping a person with serious and persistent mental illness to reach an optimal state of constructive activity. RecoveryThe recovery process builds or rebuilds on a person’s assets, strengths, and areas of health and competence to achieve a meaningful sense of identity which incorporates, but is greater than, the illness. The emergence of PSR practices.Until the 70s and 80s, the conventional wisdom was that people with mental illness became progressively worse with little hope of recovery. More recent observations have found far more positive long-term prognosis and PSR practitioners believe that people can recover or improve if they receive the right kind of support and services. The PSR movement owes its beginnings to the efforts of discharged "patients" trying to help themselves by creating Clubhouses: a hopeful, innovative, client driven social experiment in self-help and recovery which filled an unmet need in the community. The client centred approach pioneered in clubhouses, is one of the hallmarks of PSR practice today. PSR practitioners work collaboratively with their clients to identify and help clients reach their goals by using well established practices such as Supported Housing, Supported Education, & Supported Employment . | Home | BC Board Members | Contact Us © 2008 PSR/RPS British Columbia
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