Medicina Fluminensis, Vol. 45 No. 4, 2009.
Review article
Rehabilitation in Psychiatry - Sociotherapy
Klementina Ružić
; Klinika za psihijatriju, KBC Rijeka, Hrvatska
Paola Medved
; University of Derby, Derby, Ujedinjeno kraljevstvo
Elizabeta Dadić-Hero
; Dom zdravlja Primorsko-goranske županije, Rijeka, Hrvatska
Draško Tomljanović
; Privatna psihijatrijska ordinacija, Rijeka, Hrvatska
Abstract
Rehabilitation of the psychiatric patient is a comprehensive and a complex process,
aiming at a healthy lifestyle despite the existence of the symptoms of the illness or a disorder. The rehabilitation comprises of organotherapy (psychopharmacotherapy), psychotherapy
and sociotherapy. Therefore, sociotherapy is defined as a segment within rehabilitation,
with a group dimension applied for therapeutic purposes. The effects of sociotherapy are various, nevertheless, they are all aiming towards a single goal: improving the patient’s functioning, strenghtening their social adaptation skills. The final sociotherapy’s goal and the goal of the rehabilitation as a whole is re-socialisation and re-integration of the psychiatric
patient in the community.
Keywords
group; rehabilitation; sociotherapy
Hrčak ID:
45853
URI
Publication date:
1.12.2009.
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