Psychiatric Rehabilitation in Italy: Cinderella No More—The Contribution of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Technicians

Roncone, Rita; Ussorio, Donatella; Salza, Anna; Casacchia, M

doi:10.1080/00207411.2015.1119376

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“…This list was created because the exclusive use of the SISM categorization (Table 1) appeared to be too specific to describe better, for example, the concept of "rehabilitation intervention with respect to basic interpersonal skills", that includes multiple activities aimed at developing skills of independent living in everyday life. Therefore, the SIRP workgroup prepared a list of 20 "categories" of rehabilitation activities that seemed to sufficiently represent most of the rehabilitation interventions applied in the various Italian services, also starting from what already existed in the Italian and international literature (Table 2; 53,54). This list of categories, compiled by the Survey SIRP workgroup, was attached to the survey form, in order to allow the operator involved to classify the activity in a more descriptive way.…”

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Psychiatric rehabilitation patterns in Italy: Results from the Italian Society of Psychosocial Rehabilitation (SIRP) survey

Viganò

Ariu²,

Barbieri³

et al. 2023

Front. Psychiatry

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IntroductionPsychiatric rehabilitation can be considered a bidirectional technique, designed to allow patients to achieve their personal target, focusing on the individuals’ strengths and challenges related to these targets and also on the community organizations in which they will live them out. Unfortunately, psychiatric rehabilitation is too often not considered a first line treatment. Moreover, rehabilitation has been confused with a generic and rough practice, consisting of extemporary actions and aimless entertainments designed to fill “the time passing”.MethodsThe aim of this study was to increase the knowledge and awareness about the state of the art of different systems of management and funding of psychosocial rehabilitation in the Italian “real-world” rehabilitative settings, using a specifically developed questionnaire.ResultsThe data obtained are positive for some aspects of the rehabilitation interventions, in particular for the use of validated tools for the evaluation and revision of projects and for the trend to work on a team, even though the scarcity of evidence-based rehabilitation interventions applied in Italian psychiatric services is less encouraging.ConclusionThis survey presents, at least partially, the “real-world” of rehabilitation in Italy so that we can lay the foundations for the definition of an updated, validated and shared network of what is implemented in the context of psychiatric rehabilitation.

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Psychiatric rehabilitation patterns in Italy: Results from the Italian Society of Psychosocial Rehabilitation (SIRP) survey

Viganò

Ariu²,

Barbieri³

et al. 2023

Front. Psychiatry

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“…The study included students of “psychiatric rehabilitation techniques”, who were undergoing a three-year academic curriculum to be skilled in properly administering psychosocial interventions. These technicians represent an innovative professional workforce in mental healthcare that has not yet established outside Italy, and a specific mental-health academic and professional profile, created after the passage of Law 180 (Pingani et al, 2013 ; Roncone et al, 2016 ), to work in a psychiatric community team. The study reported that these students and younger mental health workers seemed to show a higher cognitive openness and flexibility than the more experienced colleagues, who still had some difficulty accepting the recovery dimension of “non-linearity” and their users’ well-being “beyond” treatment adherence and psychopathological stability (Giusti et al, 2019 ).…”

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Easier Said Than Done: The Challenge to Teach “Personal Recovery” to Mental Health Professionals Through a Short, Targeted and Structured Training Programme

Giusti

Ussorio

Salza

et al. 2021

Community Ment Health J

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This study assesses the effectiveness of our short Personal Recovery Training Program (PRTP) for mental health professionals. Fifty-two healthcare professionals from Italian mental health services and forty students in psychiatric rehabilitation completed the Recovery Knowledge Inventory (RKI) pre- and post-training, divided into two groups: the PRTP (N = 45) and the Family Psychoeducational Training Program (FPTP; N = 47). Participants’ understanding of personal recovery improved more significantly for those in the PRTP than for those in the FPTP group in two domains, “Roles and responsibilities” and “Non-linearity of the recovery process”; the FPTP group showed a significant improvement in the “Role of self-definition and peers in recovery” domain. Two consumers were involved in the PRTP and represented a resource to help participants understand the personal recovery process. Our findings indicate that a brief PRTP supported by consumers can improve staff and students' recovery orientation. The translation of the training into clinical practice remains unevaluated.

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Stigma and Attitude Towards Personal Recovery from Mental Illness Among Italian Mental Health Professionals

Roncone

Giusti

Bianchini

et al. 2022

Recovery and Major Mental Disorders

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Psychiatric Rehabilitation in Italy: Cinderella No More—The Contribution of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Technicians

Cited by 10 publications

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Psychiatric rehabilitation patterns in Italy: Results from the Italian Society of Psychosocial Rehabilitation (SIRP) survey

Psychiatric rehabilitation patterns in Italy: Results from the Italian Society of Psychosocial Rehabilitation (SIRP) survey

Easier Said Than Done: The Challenge to Teach “Personal Recovery” to Mental Health Professionals Through a Short, Targeted and Structured Training Programme

Stigma and Attitude Towards Personal Recovery from Mental Illness Among Italian Mental Health Professionals

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