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Dissemination of Skills Training Modules to Psychiatric Facilities

Overcoming Obstacles to the Utilisation of a Rehabilitation Innovation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

Robert P. Liberman
Affiliation:
UCLA Clinical Research Center for Schizophrenia & Psychiatric Rehabilitation and West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center
Thad A. Eckman
Affiliation:
UCLA Clinical Research Center for Schizophrenia & Psychiatric Rehabilitation and West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center

Extract

The current wisdom in psychiatric rehabilitation suggests that social and instrumental skills training combined with judicious neuroleptic therapy, prosthetic environments, and assertive case management confers the greatest degree of protection from relapse while promoting an optimal quality of life for patients suffering serious and long-term mental illness.

Type
IV. From the Perspective of Person-Environment Relationships
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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