Psychosocial Rehabilitation in Italy Today

Abstract:

The continuity of care in the usual context of subject’s life and the multiprofessional care is the approach to psychiatric care of severe mental disorders prototypically implemented in Italy after the Psychiatric Reform of 1978. In this framework, the practice of psychiatric rehabilitation has been gradually refining and consolidating its paradigms, offering procedures and interventions with selective and targeted objectives. In this position paper, promoted by the Italian Society for Psychosocial Rehabilitation, some relevant statements are presented about the definition of psychosocial rehabilitation, the facilities where it is done and the interventions and activities implemented, the professionals involved and their education and training, and issues of management and organization. Limits and perspectives of this area are also discussed.

Keywords:

• psychosocial rehabilitation
• Italy
• rehabilitation facilities
• rehabilitative interventions
• management of psychosocial rehabilitation
• training of rehabilitation professionals

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The authors thank the Committee of the Italian Society of Psychosocial Rehabilitation for their contribution to the authorship of this paper (years 2011–2017): Emilia Alfonsi, Antonio Amatulli, Gabriella Ba, Antonella Baita, Luigi Basso, Antonello Bellomo, Loretta Berti, Ileana Boggian, Lorenzo Burti, Bernardo Paola Carozza, Carpiniello, Massimo Casacchia, Francesco Catapano, Giulio Corrivetti, Giorgio d’Allio, Tiziana De Donatis, Ferdinando De Marco, Barbara Ferrari, Antonella Ferro, Antonio Francomano, Daniele La Barbera, Dario Lamonaca, Josè Mannu, Silvia Merlin, Antonella Mombello, Dario Nicora, Mario Nicotera, Pietro Nigro, Paolo Paolotti, Maura Papi, Ferdinando Pariante, Andrea Parma, Paolo Peloso (for the Italian Society of Psychiatry), Francesco Pesavento, Manuela Peserico, Luca Pingani, Massimo Rabboni, Marco Rigatelli, Rita Roncone, Corrado Rossi, Marianna Rossi, Riccardo Sabatelli, Giuseppe Saccotelli, Daniele Sadun, Franco Scarpa, Domenico Semisa, Sergio Tartaglione, Evangelista Tragni Matacchieri, Donatella Ussorio, Lucia Valentini, Caterina Viganò, Enrico Visani, Antonio Vita, and Umberto Volpe.