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I. Introduction The passion for helping others with the end game of jumping the hurtles presented by mental illness and the ability to live a more meaningful life often leads individuals to pursue the helping professions. While enhancing functionality and overall lives is what clinicians often want for their clients, complications in the profession such as services impacted by burnout in clinicians, bureaucracy and associated limits/barriers to treatment provision, lack of funding for essential programs as well as other factors interfere with reaching this aim. Moreover, so often the behavioral healthcare profession, due to its roots in the medical model, “treatment is successful elimination of symptoms” has left out the most important …show more content…

What seems to not occur to them is that this desire to work and be empowered that they experience and feel bad about is an unfortunate latent effect (obviously in addition to their condition) of becoming dependent on the system. IS THIS MY TOPIC? IS IT LACK OF WORK OR THE FACT THAT THEY ARE DISABLED AND DISCONNECTED? WOULD IT BE BETTER TO TALK ABOUT THE DISCONNECT HERE? Repeated encounters of dismissiveness, judgement, or “haughtiness” by community members coupled with experiences of repeated “functionality struggles” such as the diminished ability achieve/maintain meaningful relationships, gainful employment, as well as meeting basic needs, reinforce feelings of inadequacy, “learned helplessness” as well as other self-deprecating thought patterns. The following independent study researches the important process of psychosocial rehabilitation for this marginalized population. Helping them sharpen their memories, increase social skills/independent activities of daily living, and to enhance involvement with the community and meaningful activity as well as yield a sense of “I can do!” is something that I find very important to working this field. Therefore, the rationale of this paper is to explore the research on the clubhouse model within the context of psychiatric rehabilitation and enhancement in the lives of the SPMI

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