Department
The Rehabilitation Department at WSH is comprised of a number of unique and specialized professional disciplines (e.g., Occupational Therapists and Aides, Recreational Specialists, Institutional Counselors, etc.). Staff provide psychotherapy/education in a group setting in one of four Recovery Centers.
Benefits
The goal of the Rehabilitation Department is to support the hospital’s mission, to promote recovery and well-being in partnership with the people we serve.
Our goal is to primarily afford each of our patients the skills necessary to be successful in the community and/or during their competency hearing or once discharged from the hospital.
We try to accomplish this by providing education about various topics such as:
- Competency restoration
- Budgeting
- The importance of taking medication
- Following up with community providers
- Relapse prevention strategies
- Leisure skills
- Mindfulness
- Anger management
- Coping skills
- Activities of Daily Living
- Life skills
Services
The Rehabilitation Department continues its efforts to offer patients services and interventions that are consistent with evidence-based and best-practice methodologies.
- Evidence-based means that interventions are based upon a comprehensive review of scientific and clinical literature.
- Best-practice means method or techniques that have consistently shown results superior to those achieved with other means, and that are therefore, used as a benchmark.
Therapy
Services provided to patients are varied and diverse. The focus ranges from psychoeducation activities (e.g., improving activities of daily living skills (ADLs), basic computer skills, education/GED, medication management, leisure skills, symptom management, competency restoration, etc.) and psychotherapy activities (e.g., Cognitive-behavioral therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, co-occurring/relapse prevention groups, etc.). These activities are consistent with best-practice and evidence-based models.