Why Recreational Therapy (RT) for
Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR)?
Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR)
for Mental & Behavioral Health
"Psychosocial rehabilitation (also termed psychiatric rehabilitation or PSR) promotes personal recovery, successful community integration and satisfactory quality of life for persons who have a mental illness or mental health concern. [...PSR] encourages people to be self-directed, empowered and to strive for independence."
- Canadian Mental Health Association
FACT SHEET:
Recreational Therapy and Behavioral Health
About Recreational Therapy (RT) for Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR)
- National Alliance on Mental Illness
View Educational Video from Bern University of Applied Sciences in Bern, Switzerland
View Educational Video from British Red Cross on Psychosocial Support:
- "Psychosocial rehabilitation helps people develop the social, emotional and intellectual skills they need in order to live happily with the smallest amount of professional assistance they can manage.
- Psychosocial rehabilitation uses two strategies for intervention: learning coping skills so that they are more successful handling a stressful environment and developing resources that reduce future stressors."
View Educational Video from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Department of Rehabilitation Sciences:
"[W]hen therapeutic recreation was included as part of a social learning program, therapeutic recreation was found to increase appropriate behaviors over time for residents with severe and persistent schizophrenia (Pestle, Card & Menditto, 1998)" - American Psychological Association, Recovery to Practice (pg. 231)
View Educational Video from Oregon State Hospital (USA):