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Beginnings and endings; Is there a way out of psychiatric services?
Author(s) -
Christie Mimi
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.1993.tb00969.x
Subject(s) - psychiatric rehabilitation , rehabilitation , psychiatry , unemployment , project commissioning , community service , position (finance) , psychology , publishing , mental health , public relations , mental illness , business , political science , economic growth , finance , neuroscience , law , economics
An historical and conceptual overview of psychiatric rehabilitation services is presented as a challenge to the appropriateness of traditional community based psychiatric services which isolate people from the community. The position is taken that the goal of psychiatric rehabilitation services should be to link people to normal community services and support systems. The problems which can arise from treating people in a separate psychiatric system are illustrated by tracing the development of a supported employment program through periods of high employment and high unemployment.