Rehabilitation Model

To guide the cultural change of the community mental health center, the organization will need to shift their primary tasks from the medical model to a recovery-orientated model. The organization will need to foster the development of a recovery-oriented system of care. The community mental health center will need to be aware that the recovery-oriented system of care is as complex and dynamic as the process of recovery itself. The Board of Directors and Program Managers will need to accept and understand the relationship and connectedness between recovery and rehabilitation. This system will include key elements such as community integration, improved quality of life, and recovery. Community integration is a major step in one’s path to
According to Swarbrick (2006), wellness is defined as a conscious and deliberate process that requires a person to become aware of and make choices for a more fulfilling lifestyle. Areas to be included in a wellness lifestyle are a balance of healthy habits that include sufficient sleep and rest along with a proper diet, exercise and productivity, partaking in meaningful activities, and establishing and maintaining supportive relationships (Swarbrick, 2006). Swarbrick (2006) states that wellness incorporates eight dimensions that are all connected and connected to one’s life. These dimensions are emotional, financial, social, spiritual, occupational, physical, intellectual, and environmental (Swarbrick, 2006). Swarbrick (2006), further explains that if one dimension is negatively effected this will eventually impact other areas of our wellness. For explain, when one can not pay their rent they become financial stressed, which can then lead to experiencing emotional stress (anxiety), that can sometimes lead to psychical pain or illness. This series of connected effects can eventually spill over into all eight dimensions of wellness if allowed to do so. However, one can regain their balance (mental and emotional) by focusing on other aspects of their wellness in hopes that it will improve those aspects that are negatively affected. In addition, not only will the person served benefit from these directives, but the staff themselves can greatly. Staff should be encouraged to apply this same ideology to their own wellness. Utilizing these wellness concepts personally and professionally can decrease burnout and promote a more effective workforce. Therefore, including the aspects of wellness will allow the center to not only take a holistic approach towards recovery, but it will allow staff to share in this experience as