Psychosocial Rehabilitation of Chronic Mental Disorders

1. Understand the purpose of psychosocial rehabilitation, its scope in various areas, and its limitations.
2. Knowing how to identify deteriorations, disability, and handicaps.
3. Knowing the process of psychiatric reform and health care policy today.
4. Knowing the different areas in which rehabilitation can intervir.
5. Knowing, at basic and general level the most appropriate tools for each area of intervention.
6. Knowing, at basic and general level appropriate procedures for intervention proposals.
7. Knowing and applying the ethical standards of the profession itself and psychological research.

THEORY

SECTION I. Conceptual and procedural aspects.
LESSON 1. Concept of chronicity and related features.
LESSON 2. Psychiatric reform and health care policy.
LESSON 3. Foundations of psychosocial rehabilitation.
LESSON 4. Functional evaluation and intervention planning of rehabilitation.

SECTION II. Areas involved in the rehabilitation of patients with chronic mental disorders.
LESSON 5. Activities of daily living.
LESSON 6. Cognitive rehabilitation.
LESSON 7. Training in social skills.
LESSON 8. Medication management and collected prevention.
LESSON 9. The role of family and support networks.
LESSON 10. Vocational rehabilitation.

PRACTICES

- Critical analysis of controversial issues in the field.
- The importance of planning: The Individualized Rehabilitation Plan.
- Management and interpretation of evaluation instruments (genogram, social network map...)
- ADL workshops, cognitive training, social skills...
- Elaboration of IRP for different clinical cases.

Basic bibliography:

1. Rodríguez, A. (Coord.) (2002,2011). Rehabilitación psicosocial de personas con trastornos mentales crónicos. Pirámide.

2. Pastor, A., Blanco, A. y Navarro, D. (Coords.) (2010). Manual de rehabilitación del trastorno mental grave. Síntesis.


Complementary bibliography:

Abad, A., Arroyo, J.L., Blanco, M. and others. (2000). Rehabilitación psicosocial y apoyo comunitario de personas con enfermedad mental crónica: programas básicos de intervención. Consejería Servicios Sociales Comunidad de Madrid.

Aldaz, J.A. & Vázquez, C. (Comps.) (1996). Esquizofrenia: fundamentos psicológicos y psiquiátricos de la rehabilitación. Siglo XXI.

Anthony, W., Cohen, M. & Farkas, M. (1994). Psychiatric Rehabilitation. Center Psychiatric Rehabilitation.

Arias, P., Camps, C., Cifre, A. and others (2002). Rehabilitación psicosocial del trastorno mental severo. Situación actual y recomendaciones. Asociación Española de Neuropsiquiatría.

Bedell, J.R. (Ed.) (1993). Psychological assessment and treatment of persons with several mental disorders. Taylor & Francis.

Bernardo, M. (2004). Qué sabemos de la esquizofrenia. Guía para pacientes y familiares. Ars médica.

Corrigan, P.W., Mueser, K., Bond, G. & Drake, R. (2008). Principles and practice of psychiatric rehabilitation. Guilford Press.

Fernández, J., Touriño, R., Benítez, N. & Abelleira, C. (Eds.) (2010). Evaluación en Rehabilitación Psicosocial. FEARP.

Kuipers, E., Leff, J. & Lam, D. (2004). Esquizofrenia. Guía práctica de trabajo con las familias. Ed. Paidós.

Liberman, R.P. (1993). Rehabilitación integral del enfermo mental crónico. Martínez Roca.

Penadés, R. & Bernardo, M. (2022). Guía de intervenciones psicológicas en la esquizofrenia. Ediveramérica.

Pratt,C.W., Gill, K.J., Barrett, N.M. & Roberts, M.M. (2006). Psychiatric Rehabilitation. Elsevier.

- Competences of the program to which the subject contributes:
1. To know the contributions and limitations of the diverse theoretical models for Psychology.
2. To know the main methods for psychological assessment, diagnosis and treatment in the different fields of Psychology: Clinical and Health, Social, and Educational Psychology.
3.To be able to identify the target recipients’ needs and to set appropriate goals for different fields of Psychology.
4.To promote health and life quality through professional psychological methods in groups, communities and organizations in the different fields of Psychology: educational, clinical and health, work and organizational, group and community contexts.
5.To be able to select and apply adequate and specific psychological intervention procedures and instruments.
6.To be able to set goals and to plan intervention procedures according to recipients’ needs and demands and to be able to assess intervention results.
7.To be able to communicate the results of psychological assessment to recipients in a proper and accurate way.
8.To elaborate psychological reports addressed to professionals and other recipients in the different professional fields.
9.To conform with the deontological duties of Psychology.

- Specific competeces of the matter:
1. To know and understand the nature of rehabilitation and its principles to apply to the care of people with mental health problems of long duration in a community setting.
2. To know the realities of health care and social around people with chronic mental disorders.
3. To know the different areas from which one can intervene to promote rehabilitation autonomous operation.
4. Being able to identify skills gaps and resource users.
5. To know how to select and manage the most relevant instruments for different assessment areas.
6. Being able to make proposals for an individualized rehabilitation plan.

- The lectures are used to introduce and guide the development of the different topics of the program. In the classes, which will be face-to-face, there is a theoretical presentation of the most important contents of each of the program topics. The presentations are made on material available to students from the chapters of the textbook that constitute the basic bibliography of the subject and the different contents of the theoretical program are explained with the support of slides. Attendance at lectures is voluntary, although it is recommended that the student attend with some regularity because it implies a greater and faster acquisition of the specific skills of the subject.

- The interactive activities complement the theoretical contents and consist of the preparation of different practical works: critical comments, clinical cases, exercises, videos, handling of instruments /materials from the field and other virtual activities. The interactive classes follow the hybrid teaching model: part of the activities will be carried out in face-to-face sessions in the classroom (with compulsory attendance) and another part will be carried out remotely, asynchronously, through the virtual classroom of the subject, which will be available on the Virtual Campus for all enrolled students. The work done in class, in person, will be delivered on the same day of each interactive session. The work of the telematic sessions will be sent through the virtual classroom within the scheduled deadline for the delivery of each of the tasks. Attendance/completion of interactive activities is mandatory. If a student has missed an interactive or has not handed in the assignment within the stipulated deadline, and there is a justified cause for such absence, he/she will have the option to recover that interactive by doing an extra work.

As a learning assessment system, continuous formative assessment will be combined with a mandatory objective final test. Consequently, students will be evaluated through two criteria:

- For the evaluation of the theory, the student will undergo a final exam, which will consist of an objective test type multiple choice, of 30-40 items and 4 answer options. This test is mandatory and has a weight in the final grade of 60%.To overcome this part you must achieve at least 5 (out of 10) on the exam.

- The continuous formative evaluation is carried out from all the practical tasks carried out and delivered by the student throughout the course. Interactive content thus accounts for 40% of the overall grade for subject matter. To pass the subject, the student must have delivered at least 70% of the tasks set out in the interactive sessions.

Aspects to be assessed for the calculation of grades: For the score achieved in the practical activities to be counted in the final grade, the
student must have obtained at least 4.5 on the objective test. To add the interactive notes to the theory grade, the student
you must have delivered at least 6 internship assignments. Finally, to pass the subject it is required that the sum of the scores
weighted scores obtained in the final exam and in the practices reach a minimum of 5 out of 10.

These conditions will remain unchanged in any circumstance in which the students find themselves, including in the case of exemption from
attendance (the student must carry out 70% of the interactive activities and will have the possibility of recovering up to 3
interactive sessions handing in extra works).

This subject comprises 4.5 credits, which are equivalent to 112.5 working hours with the following estimated distribution:
- Attendance at lectures, practices an evaluation: 40.5 hours.
- Autonomous work: 72 hours.

For the proper use of the subject the student should have knowledge of psychopathology and psychological treatments.
It is recommended to attend theory class regularly; in addition, it would be desirable to update the contents of the subject. Finally, students must regularly monitor -at least weekly- the activities, tasks, materials and announcements of the Virtual Classroom.

The tutoring schedule will be set at the beginning of each academic year, but students can request a face-to-face or telephone tutoring by email.