Who cares for it? How to provide psychosocial interventions in the community

Abstract

The skills needed for properly performing psychosocial interventions are not available in other mental health professionals and it is not possible that these interventions, which require in-depth training, are performed by professionals with a different background. It is advisable that psychiatric rehabilitation technicians become an integral and permanent component of an efficient community psychiatric staff.

Psychometric validation of the Italian version of the Reported and Intended Behaviour Scale (RIBS)

“…The choice to involve these students was due to the fact that they are in close contact with patients with mental illness and have in their degree course the study of the sociological, historical and theoretical aspects of stigma (Pingani et al 2013(Pingani et al , 2015. The choice to involve these students was due to the fact that they are in close contact with patients with mental illness and have in their degree course the study of the sociological, historical and theoretical aspects of stigma (Pingani et al 2013(Pingani et al , 2015.…”

China’s new Mental Health Law needs to tackle manpower imbalance of professionals in schizophrenia psychosocial rehabilitation

“…As psychosocial rehabilitation is much more than just pharmacotherapy, they are incompetent to provide other interventions (such as supported employment, social skills training, community living skills training and psychotherapy), which require the expertise of other team members. Similar situations also exist in Italy where the proportion of patients with schizophrenia receiving psychosocial rehabilitation interventions remains very low (Pingani et al, 2013). Further efforts thus have to be made to explore the feasibility of including the lacked members and hence the concepts and skills of implementing psychosocial rehabilitation.…”

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

“…In Italy, the skills needed to conduct psychosocial interventions properly have been complied in a specific mental-health academic and professional profile; this profile defines the professional competencies of the "psychiatric rehabilitation technician" [13]. Our article focuses on the history of the development of the specific professional profile of the psychiatric rehabilitation technician (PRT) in Italy.…”