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Mental health settings serving the severely psychiatrically disabled or the long-term chronic client have begun developing a rehabilitation orientation in an attempt to increase their effectiveness with this group. The authors have, in an earlier work, described basic elements of a rehabilitation program. These elements have been refined. Forty rehabilitation-oriented community and hospital agencies were assessed in terms of the presence or absence of these elements of a rehabilitation approach. Results indicate that the programs in the agencies clearly value client involvement and a program focus on improving skill and resource utilization. These concepts, however, are only beginning to be systematically implemented in practice.
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Farkas, M.D., Cohen, M.R. & Nemec, P.B. Psychiatric rehabilitation programs: Putting concepts into practice?. Community Ment Health J 24, 7–21 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00755049
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