Rehabilitation and Recovery (P02331)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : HEA-P-RAR

The two core themes of this Masters course - psychiatric rehabilitation and recovery - represent two distinct, but related, domains of mental health care. Psychiatric rehabilitation began in psychiatric institutions and has developed in the context of community care to encompass hospital-based and community rehabilitation. Recovery has developed in a number of Western countries from a confluence of service users' experience, progressive psychiatric rehabilitation, and longitudinal studies of outcome for people with major mental health problems. The 'guiding vision' of mental health services in the US in the 1990s was a version of recovery legitimated by reference to both users' experience and developments in community-focused psychiatric rehabilitation. Recovery is presently a priority in mental health service and mental health professionals' development in Scotland; and of meeting needs of those with longer-term and severe mental health problems remains a priority of services. A key concept linking the two is transition, in mental health state and status, in relationship to service providers and services, and in identity and community membership. The course in intended to provide an overview, and critical appraisal, of rehabilitation and recovery, taking account of the perspectives of service users, service providers, policy makers, and researchers. The course will challenge students to critically appraise their practice in the context of demands and opportunities to recognise and respond to complex health care needs and potential of people with longer-term mental health problems.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Nursing Studies, (School of Health in Social Science, Schedule D)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : To be arranged/Unknown

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Through formal learning, and reflection on experience, students will demonstrate ability to critically appraise and to synthesise knowledge relating to:
* Background to understanding transitions in relation to psychiatric rehabilitation and recovery: psychiatric institutions, the 'total institution', institutionalisation and rehabilitation
* Care planning for people with longer-term mental health problems, including the role of the person, family, community, formal and informal carers, agencies
* Policy and people with longer-standing mental health problems
* Recovery as a key principle and aim in relation to longer term mental health problems
* Hospital and community as sites for people with longer term mental health problems
* Key current interventions: family psychosocial interventions / Thorn Programmes, and the Tidal Model.
* Users' experiences of longer term mental health problems and services, and perspectives on policy
* Models for understanding longer-term mental health problems: biological, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual dimensions - and implications for nurses' responses.
* Medication and longer-term mental health problems: implications for nurses.