What is rehabilitation?
References
How do we help?
Mental health nurses play a valuable role in the rehabilitation of clients who suffer from mental health issues. These issues include the behavior of those who have substance abuse issues. The goal of rehabilitation is to return the client to a healthy, functioning state so they may move beyond their time of addiction or learn to live with the symptoms of their illness.
There comes a time during the client's treatment when they must decide why they are in treatment. The client must decided whether or not treatment will be successful for them. Within Vitality Center, group therapy, AA/NA meetings, detox, and Family Communication Day are utilized to assist the client in completing their treatment. When clients leave the facility, outside resources are availble for them to continue and be successful in their recovery.
Mental health nurses are responsible for assisting clients with their pertinent medical needs related to their disorder. The mental health nurse is a lead person within the interdisciplinary team and has a great deal of contanct with the clients. In some ways, the mental health nuse will see the client at their worst when dealing with their demons (addiction, psychological disorders, etc.).
Some of the programs used inside and outside of the facility are AA (Alcoholics Anonymous), NA (Narcotics Anonymous), and Elko Mental Health. Also, clients are encouraged to meet with their primary care providers to continue medications that may be needed even after leaving the treatment facility.
The A.A.Group
http://www.aa.org/assets/en_US/p-16_theaagroup.pdf
YouTube 28 days [Motion picture]. (2000). Columbia Pictures.
Alcoholics Anonymous
This group format is used within the treatment facility and participation after leaving the facility is encouraged.
"A.A.’s Single Purpose
Tradition Five:
Each group has but one primary purpose to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
'There are those who predict that A.A. may well become a new spearhead for a spiritual awakening throughout the world. When our friends say these
things, they are both generous and sincere. But we of A.A. must reflect that such a tribute and such a prophecy could well prove to be a heady drink for
most of us—that is, if we really came to believe this to be the real purpose of A.A., and if we commenced to behave accordingly. 'Our Society, therefore, will prudently cleave to its single purpose: the carrying of the message to the alcoholic who still suffers. Let us resist the proud assumption that since God has enabled us to do well in one area we are destined to be a channel" ( A.A. Literature ,Alcoholics Anonymous, 2015).
Alcoholics Anonymous
The purpose of AA is to offer clients a safe place that they can go to discuss and deal with the common thread of addiction.
Mental Health Nursing
by Christina R. Ruby
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