Rehabilitation services have seen a shift to a recovery-oriented perspective, which looks beyond symptoms to work alongside persons ABSTRACT 'Thanal'-Rajah Rehabilitation Centre (RRC) is a nonprofit voluntary organization established in 2001 dedicated to the people suffering from psychiatric illness. RRC adopts an interdisciplinary team approach for the upliftment of disabled. RRC follows the recovery model of psychosocial rehabilitation. Psychiatric rehabilitation program is initiated with the assessment and trial stay under the supervision of the multidisciplinary treatment team. Rajah Rehabilitation Centre provides the following programs for the service recipients of sheltered workshop; individual consultations, activity scheduling, psycho education classes, living skill training, culinary skill training, social skill training, cognitive retraining, yoga training, recreation therapy, music training & therapy, dance training & therapy, work skill training, craft & art work training, computer training program, on-job training, supported employment, supported housing etc. RRC also offers treatment for substance abuse, SS & Al-Anon groups and peer support groups for patients with mental illness, and crisis intervention program for elderly women with distress (Shanti Bavan) etc. Services at RRC facilitate individuals with psychiatric disability to increase their level of functioning and quality of life.

Peer provided intervention is an additional approach to treatment as usual for mental illness. A peer is someone who belongs to the same social or professional group. Peer provided interventions improve the quality of life and improve the prognosis of mental illness. Rajah Rehabilitation Centre has initiated the coordination of peer provided interventions to individuals with schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder since 2016. This provides a novel opportunity for help-seeking over and above the conventional one-to-one professional-patient sessions.