Effective psychiatric rehabilitation
Robert Paul Liberman (Editor)
"This volume of New Directions for Mental Health Services illuminates new approaches to psychiatric rehabilitation that confer protection to mentally ill individuals with a psychobiological vulnerability to socio-environmental stressors. Our tools are insufficiently sensitive for isolating the critical neurochemical and physiological events in the brain that are responsible for the enduring vulnerability of individuals to the symptoms and disabilities of schizophrenia and other chronic disorders. Until more specific insight is obtained, practitioners will be faced with the challenges of helping afflicted individuals. Our contemporary ethos and priorities dictate community-based treatment and the equipping of vulnerable individuals with skills to cope with the inevitable stressors of daily living, and our treatment and rehabilitation efforts must entail well-designed interventions derived from pharmacotherapy, skills training, and social support"--Back cover
Print Book, English, ©1992
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, ©1992