QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025
Psychiatric Rehabilitation - Answer - .... 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. Psychiatric 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.
WRAP - Answer - Wellness Recovery Action Plan
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) - Answer - -an evidence-based practice that improves outcomes
for people with severe mental illness who are most vulnerable to homelessness and hospitalization.
Principles of Psych Rehab Groupings - Answer - 1-3= Roles of the Practitioners
4-10= Best Practices in the Field
11-12 PsyR Service Delivery
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) - Answer - - recognizes the importance of understanding and following
research recommendations, while taking into account the service provider's clinical expertise and the
goals, preferences, interests, values, and characteristics of the people using the service
Empirically Supported Treatment (EST) - Answer - -a type of intervention that has been proven effective,
such as cognitive behavioral therapy for treatment of depression.
Evidenced-Based Medicine (EBM) - Answer - -the process an individual practitioner follows in selecting
the appropriate intervention for one individual diagnosed with a particular condition who is experiencing
specific symptoms.
Recovery - Answer - ......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.
Recovery Relating to principles of PsyR - Answer - 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 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.
The Eight Essential Features of recover-oriented mental health services - Answer - 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".
4. Recovery occurs despite that mental health symptoms may reoccur.
5. Recovery changes frequency and duration of mental health symptoms.
6. Recovery is not necessarily a linear process.
7. The consequences of the "illness" (eg. stigma) often can be harder to overcome than any of its
symptoms.
8. Recovery does not suggest that a person never had a mental illness of never experienced mental
health symptoms.
Noordsy et al. definition of recovery is centered around what 3 core concepts: - Answer - 1. hope 2.
taking personal responsibility 3. getting on with life.
Principles of Psychiatric Rehabilitation - Answer - 1. Psychiatric rehabilitation practitioners (PRP) convey
hope and respect and believe that all individuals have the capacity for learning and growth.
2. PRP recognize that culture is central to recovery and strive to ensure that all services are culturally
relevant to individuals receiving services.
3. PRP engage in the processes of informed and shared-decision making and facilitate partnerships with
other people the individual receiving services has identified
4. PsyR practices build on strengths and capabilities of individuals.