- Recovery is the ultimate goal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation. Interventions must facilitate the process of recovery.
- Psychosocial Rehabilitation practices help people re-establish roles in the community and their reintegration into community life.
- Psychosocial Rehabilitation practices facilitate the development of personal support networks.
- Psychosocial Rehabilitation practices facilitate an enhanced quality of life for each person receiving services.
- All people have the capacity to learn and grow.
- People receiving services have the right to direct their own affairs, including those that are related to their mental illness.
- All people are to be treated with respect and dignity
- Psychosocial Rehabilitation practitioners make conscious and consistent efforts to eliminate labeling and discrimination, particularly discrimination based upon a disabling condition.
- Culture and/or ethnicity play an important role in recovery as sources of strength and enrichment for the person and the services.
- Psychosocial Rehabilitation interventions build on the strengths of each person.
- Psychosocial Rehabilitation services are to be coordinated, accessible, and available as long as needed.
- All services are to be designed to address the unique needs of each individual, consistent with the individual’s cultural values and norms.
- Psychosocial Rehabilitation practices actively encourage and support the involvement of persons in community activities, such as school and work, throughout the rehabilitation process.
- The involvement and partnership of persons receiving services and family members is an essential ingredient of the process of rehabilitation and recovery.
- Psychosocial Rehabilitation practitioners should constantly strive to improve the services they provide.
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