Choices for Recovery Community-Based Rehabilitation and the Clubhouse Model as Means to Mental Health Reforms
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Choices for RecoveryThe main idea of this overview, like the whole project Empowering Adults with Mental Illness for Learning and Social Inclusion (EMPAD), is to develop, promote and disseminate good practice Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) aimed at helping people living with mental disorders.Different forms of psychosocial rehabilitation, like recovery approaches and the Clubhouse model, support them towards empowerment and a life where human rights and positive mental health prevail.The key theme which binds the different sections of this overview together is the ongoing process of mental health reform by diversifying the community-based service delivery.During the past two decades intergovernmental organizations such as the United Nations, Council of Europe and the European Union have produced a set of about 30 different declarations, recommendations and other documents in the field of mental health policy due to be implemented in their member countries.Together these form a comprehensive international framework for the development of mental health policy and psychosocial rehabilitation services.The purpose of this overview is to study interrelationships between the conceptual elements of the values, principles and goals of the different mental health policy frameworks and the key concepts of psychosocial rehabilitation.Common denominators between different policy recommendations are identified and they are compared with the International Standards for the Clubhouse programmes.In addition, the overview offers basic information about community-based rehabilitation and its components, as well as a summary of scientific research on its impact on the recovery and empowerment of people living with mental disorders.Also other outcomes and results are described, such as the cost-effectiveness of Clubhouses as a part of the general mental health services.The subsection 4.5 is based mainly on writings of the experts of the International Center for Clubhouse Development -ICCD, which is a third country participant in the EMPAD project.Since 1994 the ICCD has been a global resource for Clubhouses which create opportunities for the recovery and social inclusion of people with mental health problems.At the same it is a community of the ICCD Clubhouses where recovery involves the whole person.The content of the subsection covers a major part of the written materials due to be produced by the ICCD as the EMPAD project deliverables.This overview can be used as a sourcebook and training and learning material about the process of mental health reform and the recovery-orientated community-based rehabilitation of people with different mental health conditions.This overview is a product of the EMPAD workpackage number 2.
Author: Esko Hänninen
Language: English
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2152113380