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Article Excerpt
Psychiatric rehabilitation is multidisciplinary and broad, cross-cutting field, with disciplines such as social work, psychology, psychiatry, and rehabilitation counseling which have focused their efforts on improving services and systems for people who have psychiatric disabilities. Each discipline offers unique contributions to the field, united around a common purpose. Rehabilitation counseling has typically focused on vocational rehabilitation services and employment outcomes. Understanding of psychiatric rehabilitation varies across disciplines, services, and systems. Psychiatric rehabilitation is much more than 'counseling' or 'treating' people who have been diagnosed with mental health disorders, it involves promoting full recovery, facilitating community integration, and developing or improving functioning in preferred life roles (Anthony, Cohen, Farkas, & Gagne, 2001; USPRA, 2009).
New issues are emerging in the field of psychiatric rehabilitation that particularly interest rehabilitation counselors, researchers, and educators, such as a heightened awareness of the concerns of veterans returning from Iraq, high mortality rates of people with psychiatric disabilities due to co-occurring physical health conditions, and the complications in employment and other life domains posed by co-morbid conditions such as traumatic...
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