| People who are mentally ill also seem to be | | | | individuals to use their time more productively, |
| chronically afraid of hospitals, or at least seem to | | | | both in the community and at home, and can help |
| want to avoid medical attention in a hospital | | | | them to manage mental health issues like their |
| setting. Looking at it from the perspective of | | | | medications. |
| someone who is confused or otherwise mentally | | | | Mentally ill people can also benefit from mobile |
| unstable, the sterile and instrument-laden halls of a | | | | psychiatric rehabilitation to help them use |
| hospital are indeed terrifying, and can even be | | | | community resources such as employment |
| considered "creepy" by a person who is not | | | | specialists, advocacy groups, program participant |
| suffering from a mental condition. | | | | groups, and other community support to their |
| Mentally ill people do not want to come to a | | | | advantage. They will learn how to enjoy and |
| hospital, and they do not want to seek | | | | make use of the love and support of their family, |
| treatment, making it difficult to get that | | | | friends, and community, even co-workers, and will |
| treatment to them. This is why mobile psychiatric | | | | work on their ability to coordinate their care |
| rehabilitation units have been established. Mobile | | | | between their service providers and their support |
| psychiatric rehabilitation is designed to help people | | | | systems at or near home. |
| who are suffering from a mental illness regain or | | | | Mobile psychiatric rehabilitation focuses not on |
| maintain the skills that will help them function in | | | | medicating or treating mentally ill patients, but on |
| society, allowing them the comfort and security | | | | helping individuals medicate themselves and |
| of being treated in an individualized fashion by a | | | | assisting them in managing their own diseases so |
| caring person in their own homes. | | | | that they can live out their lives as best as they |
| The mobile psychiatric rehabilitation program is | | | | can. A mentally ill individual could make use of |
| individualized to each person, with a specialist | | | | mobile psychiatric rehabilitation to learn how to live |
| conducting an assessment of each person to | | | | on their own and how to use the features |
| whom the mobile psychiatric rehabilitation unit is | | | | available to them, from busses and trains to |
| assigned. They work with the mentally ill individual | | | | employment specialists. |
| to determine their strengths, and their personal | | | | People working with mobile psychiatric rehabilitation |
| and community resources. From there they work | | | | can learn how to utilize their co-workers as a |
| to determine a plan of service to help outline the | | | | support system, and about how to reach out for |
| tasks and goals of the individual. Both the patient | | | | the help that they need in managing their |
| and the representative have tasks between each | | | | everyday life. The mobile psychiatric rehabilitation |
| visit to make progress toward these goals. | | | | programs can also help people to learn about their |
| The mobile psychiatric rehabilitation units are | | | | own homes and lives, allowing them to learn about |
| tailored to meet the wants as well as the needs | | | | things such as budgets so that they can become |
| of each individual. They can meet an individual in | | | | even more independent. |
| their own home, at their school, their work, or | | | | It feels good to work with a friendly person to |
| even in their neighborhood. These services are | | | | reach a goal that you personally have set. |
| short term and are goal oriented, allowing people, | | | | Whether your goal is to learn how to get to work |
| through their own personal choice and at their | | | | all by yourself or how to buy groceries or clean |
| own speed, to develop the skills and the support | | | | your own house. Mobile psychiatric rehabilitation is |
| that they need to become self-sufficient and to | | | | a wonderful service for the mentally ill, and can |
| have a more satisfying life. | | | | help people who might otherwise fall apart to get |
| Mobile psychiatric rehabilitation can help to allow a | | | | on their feet and learn to move forward, perhaps |
| person to manage their own home through the | | | | for the first time in their lives. |
| acquisition of new skills such as budgeting, | | | | Mobile psychiatric rehabilitation is for anyone who |
| nutrition, and other self-care skills, as well as skills | | | | is a functional mentally ill person. This program, if it |
| in areas such as the use of public transportation. | | | | is available in your area, can help you or a loved |
| Mobile psychiatric rehabilitation can help to teach | | | | one learn to make use of their functional capacity |
| mentally ill individuals or mentally deficient | | | | to live independently. |