Department
The Rehabilitation Department is comprised of a number of unique and specialized professional disciplines (e.g., occupational therapists and aides, recreational specialists, behavioral health therapists, substance use disorder therapists, etc.). Staff provide psychotherapy/education in a group setting in the recovery centers or wards.
Benefits
The goal of the Rehabilitation Department is to support DSHS’ mission to partner with people to access support, care, and resources.
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
- Vocation and volunteer work
- The importance of taking medication
- Following up with community providers
- Relapse prevention strategies
- Recreation and leisure skills
- Mindfulness
- Emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills
- Coping skills
- Activities of daily living
- Life skills
Services
The Rehabilitation Department offers patients services and interventions consistent with evidence-based, best-practice and promising practice methodologies.
- Evidence-based means interventions are based upon a comprehensive review of scientific and clinical literature and are proven effective.
- Best practice means methods or techniques that have consistently shown results superior to those achieved with other means, and are used as a benchmark.
- Promising practices means interventions, services or strategies that show potential for positive outcomes.
Therapy
Services provided to patients are varied and diverse. The focus ranges from psychoeducation activities (e.g., improving activities of daily living skills), basic computer skills, education/GED, medication management, leisure skills, symptom management, licensed substance use disorders assessment and treatment, 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, promising practices, and evidence-based models.