- Title
- Community Reintegration of Long-Stay Hospitalised Mental Health Consumers During COVID-19 Pandemic
- Creator
- Tirupati, Srinivasan; Webster, Karen; Gifford, Kylie
- Relation
- Australian Social Work Vol. 76, Issue 1, p. 113-121
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2021.1980596
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- Mandatory restrictions on social activities and access to services during the COVID-19 pandemic prevented discharge into the community of consumers from an extended-stay, hospital-based rehabilitation program. This article describes a revised discharge process that overcame the pandemic-related restrictions by replacing the graded and slow discharge process with a one-stage, full-time transition that facilitated the discharge of 16 adult consumers. No adverse mental health outcomes occurred during the process. The change of practice with its positive results reflected therapeutic risk-taking. The COVID-19 pandemic provided scope for creativity and innovation in mental health care and psychiatric rehabilitation. Implications: * Innovation and collaboration by service providers can promote consumers’ positive risk-taking to return to a life in mainstream society after a prolonged stay in an inpatient rehabilitation unit. * Community reintegration of consumers with enduring severe mental illness can occur under adverse public health and social situations like the COVID-19 pandemic with innovative hospital discharge planning.
- Subject
- severe mental disorders; psychiatric rehabilitation; inpatients; discharge planning; hospital; innovation; SDG 3; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1478346
- Identifier
- uon:50155
- Identifier
- ISSN:0312-407X
- Language
- eng
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