Rehabilitation Vs Rehabilitation

Mental illness poses many obstacles in rehabilitation. For instance, mental illness is not something that can be completely cured. The symptoms can be lessened, and a mentally ill person may be able to live a productive life if they receive treatment and /or medication. However, they will still have diagnoses of mental illness. Rehabilitation of mental ill inmates should consist of helping the individual to recover from lost skill, coping with everyday demands, and restoring broken relationships. The rehabilitation may also have to focus on specific issues such as substance abuse. A constraint of rehabilitation in the correctional system is the emphasis that are placed on punishment. The focus on punishment makes it difficult to develop effective rehabilitation programs. (Benson, 2003.). The purpose of rehabilitation is to prepare the offender to re-enter society as a valued member. The goal of rehabilitation programs is to reform a prisoner from committing crimes and assisting them in beginning “normal” lives without committing future crimes. Programs help to identify potential skills through vocational training and help to educate prisoners through basic
Assessment is an essential step in planning and development of what the offender will need for services which will enable the offender to achieve, maintain, or even restore an acceptable or optimal level of social independence or quality of life. Mental health professionals use measurement of need to inform service provisions for those with mental illness, much like the psychological theories that have employed concepts of need, such as Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (Maslow, 1954). Needs arise as a result of social disablement, this occurs in individuals that experience lowered psychological, social, and physical functioning in comparison to social norms. (Adam & Ferrandino,