TY - CHAP

T1 - Social Intervention in Psychiatric Disorders

AU - Rössler, Wulf

PY - 2015/3/26

Y1 - 2015/3/26

N2 - Serious mental illness can devastate the lives of people who suffer from it. These persons have a right to be treated according to current knowledge. Psychosocial interventions aim at reintegrating the mentally ill into the community and improving their quality of life. The goal of psychosocial intervention is to help disabled individuals to establish the emotional, social, and intellectual skills needed to live, learn, and work in the community with the least amount of professional support. The refinement of all these approaches has achieved a level where they should be made readily available for every person with severe mental disorders.

AB - Serious mental illness can devastate the lives of people who suffer from it. These persons have a right to be treated according to current knowledge. Psychosocial interventions aim at reintegrating the mentally ill into the community and improving their quality of life. The goal of psychosocial intervention is to help disabled individuals to establish the emotional, social, and intellectual skills needed to live, learn, and work in the community with the least amount of professional support. The refinement of all these approaches has achieved a level where they should be made readily available for every person with severe mental disorders.

KW - Chronic mental illness

KW - Community psychiatry

KW - ICF

KW - Mental health

KW - Psychiatric epidemiology

KW - Psychosocial intervention

KW - Rehabilitation

KW - Management studies

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85043423432&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.27067-0

DO - 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.27067-0

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:85043423432

SN - 9780080970868

SP - 380

EP - 385

BT - International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences

A2 - Wright, James

PB - Elsevier Inc.

ER -