1.Psychiatric Rehabilitation: .... promotes recovery, full community integration and improved quality of life for persons who have been diagnosed with any mental health condition that seriously impairs their ability to lead meaningful lives. Psy- chiatric rehabilitation services are collaborative, person-directed and individualized. These services are an essential element of the health care and human services spectrum, and should be evidenced-based.
2.WRAP: Wellness Recovery Action Plan
3.Assertive Community Treatment (ACT): -an evidence-based practice
that im- proves outcomes for people with severe mental illness who are
most vulnerable to homelessness and hospitalization.
4.Principles of Psych Rehab Groupings: 1-3= Roles of the Practitioners 4-10= Best Practices in the Field
11-12 PsyR Service Delivery
5.Evidence-Based Practice (EBP): - recognizes the importance of understanding and following research recommendations, while taking into account the service provider's clinical expertise and the goals, 2 / preferences, interests, values, and char- acteristics of the people using the service
6.Empirically Supported Treatment (EST): -a type of intervention that has
been proven effective, such as cognitive behavioral therapy for treatment of depression.
7.Evidenced-Based Medicine (EBM): -the process an individual practitioner fol- lows in selecting the appropriate intervention for one individual diagnosed with a particular condition who is experiencing specific symptoms.
8.Recovery: ......a deeply personal unique process of changing one's attitudes, values, feelings, goals, skills, and/or roles. it is a way of living a satisfying, hopeful, and contributing life even with limitations cause by illness. Recovery involves the development of new meaning and purpose in one's life as one grows beyond the catastrophic effects of mental illness.
9.Recovery Relating to principles of PsyR: Recovery from mental illness involves much more than recovery from the illness. itself. People with mental illness(es) may have to recover from the stigma that they incorporated into their very being; from the iatrogenic effects of 3 / treatment setting; from the lack of recent opportunities for self-
determination; from the negative side effects of unemployment; and from crushed dreams. Recover is a complex, time-consuming process.
10.The Eight Essential Features of recover-oriented mental health services:
1. Recovery can occur without professional intervention.
2.A common denominator of recovery is the presence of individuals
who believe in the person in recovery and will stand by him/her.
3.Recovery as a vision does function as a part of a person's ideas or
theories about "mental illnesses".