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Title: | Rehabilitation model for young adults – recovering from mental illness |
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Location: | Finland |
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Name of organization: Finnish Central Association for Mental Health Contact information (address, phone, e-mail, and website) Ratakatu 9, 00120 Helsinki, Finland Phone: (+358) 40 704 2538 Fax: (+358) 9 5657 7333 Email: tiina.johansson@mtkl.fi http://www.mtkl.fi NGO |
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Description: | Finnish Central Association for Mental Health is an association for people suffering and recovering from psychiatric problems. It stresses the right to a full, dignified life for everyone. Finnish Central Association for Mental Health consists of some 190 local, regional and national mental health associations from all over the country. The members of these associations are people with personal experience from mental problems and various mental illnesses. The membership also includes patients' relatives, psychiatric nursing staff and other volunteers willing to contribute to mental health work. |
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Innovativeness: The combining of different methods of rehabilitation. |
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Effectiveness: We have arranged three courses in Helsinki and have had 36 young people attending the courses. Of these 34 have reached the aims their stated in the beginning. The two that failed to reach their aims had some other cause for it, e.g. illness etc. |
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Satisfaction: There has been interest and the method is considered as working well, not only according to the young that have participated but also professionals. |
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Exploitation: The method could be exploited more and there is will for it. But the cause for not being exploited more is said to be the price, even though the price is actually not as high as in many other methods. |
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Search criteria: mental illness, rehabilitation |
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