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Group dimensions in an Adult Mental Health Inpatient Unit

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Human beings are immersed in group settings of one kind or another all life long and even when individual mental suffering exacerbates to the point of needing hospitalization, people find themselves sharing space, time and emotions with others. A mental health crisis breaks the individual and family balance and expresses itself with acute and extreme thoughts, emotions and behaviors. Psychiatric hospitalization, although traumatic, gives the patient and his/her relatives an opportunity of living all the alterations in a protected environment also offering them an explanation for these alterations. Clinicians aim to intervene as soon as possible after the onset of a crisis in order to enable the individual to overcome it and to return to normal functioning, Read more

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Set up and evolution of a rehabilitation group in a Therapeutic Community: Grounded Theory

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Objective: people with severe mental illness lack in communication skills and social functioning but they do have needs, goals and dreams which can be promoted and empowered. The rehabilitation program employed in this report aims at enhancing the individual’s wellbeing and the social skills of the clients of a Therapeutic Community in Rome. Method: “Entertaining Knowledge Group” is a weekly atelier which was planned to strengthen the clients’ skills to organize cultural and recreational activities in Rome. We used an action research approach project (Hopkins, 1993) in order to monitor, to verify and to improve our practice. Results: main findings indicate clients’ clinical changes and increased social interactions after 10 months. Conclusions: results suggest that working on the reflections and on the proposals of the clients in an existing trustworthy group framework can enhance the healthy and Read more