If to consider the first phase of a PsyR recovery plan, and the assessment of readiness to participate in rehabilitation activities, Jason is motivated by his desire to move back in with his parents. He values his social role as son and brother and his environment of choice is to be with his parents and sister. His overall recovery goal is family cohesion and connection with these central relationships and natural support networks. Rehabilitation favors choice and this is no different when considering housing. Many people choose to live with family or are supported considerably by family in living situations and therefore, in these instances, families need to be involved in processes of rehabilitation with necessary support, information, and …show more content…
Natural family supports are most easily fostered in normal housing situations and people residing in independent living situations of their choice with formal support services to help them maintain those situations is supported by research and PsyR commitment to community integration. There is strong agreement in the literature for “consumer choice; normal, integrated living sites; and provision of supports that are flexible and ongoing” (Pratt, Gill, Barrett & Roberts, date, p. 318-319). Therefore, though supported housing is Jason’s second preference in housing, it can serve to support his primary recovery goal of family cohesion. These overall psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery goals maximize this client’s preferences, support his definitions of and decisions in recovery, and centralizes partnership with his family. With reference to nursing diagnosis’ in the family domain, ‘interrupted family processes’ is typically chosen when “a usually supportive family is experiencing stressful events that challenge its previously effective functioning” (Austin & Boyd, 2010, p. …show more content…
These will include: improved family knowledge of mental illness, symptoms, medications, therapeutic effects, and side effects, improved family problem solving, reduced family stress, and family recovery, as well as reduced relapses and hospitalizations (Pratt, Gill, Barrett & Roberts, date, p. 393). Family psychoeducation has evidenced positive outcomes for person with schizophrenia more generally in terms of reduced family burden and improved clinical condition (Bulut, Arslantas & Dereboy, 2016, p. 800-801, 806). These can be used as a more general evaluative stand-point. The evaluation of short-term goals can inform progress towards the overall rehabilitation as to whether or not interventions are working (Pratt, Gill, Barrett & Roberts, 2014, p. 27). For Jason, this has been verbalized in terms of ‘parents becoming more understanding of