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The goal of social rehabilitation is to help people reach and maintain a healthy level of social and vocational functioning.

The social rehabilitation model is characterized by:

• Environments that are typical living and working situations like others in the community.
  

• Staff who facilitate rather than cause change.

• Staff recognition that our clients know more about themselves than we do.

• Potential for growth and change expected from the client.

• Advocacy of interdependence with others rather than dependence on others.

• Encouragement of appropriate risk-taking by staff and clients.

• The understanding that true social rehabilitation involves the rehabilitation of the social situations in which we find ourselves.

In psychosocial rehabilitation there is recognition that the consumer has a valuable and irreplaceable role in the delivery of mental health services. Staff who have had the experience of being consumers are powerful role models for hope and recovery.