La rehabilitación y continuidad de cuidados en salud mental en Madridla experiencia de un servicio de salud mental comunitario

Abstract

The research that we are presenting is entitled “Rehabilitation and continuity in mental health care in Madrid: the experience of a community mental health service”. It is the result of a desire to bring together mental health psychosocial rehabilitation, social work, care activities and teaching practices. To this end, we have studied the practices (and the corresponding epistemology) that are used in the rehabilitation and continuous care programme implemented by the Regional Government of Madrid to respond to the needs of people affected by severe mental disorders. Due to a lack of evaluation work in this field in Madrid in general and in the mental health service in question, such an analysis was considered necessary due to the fact that the community mental health care network is the same now as it was twenty years ago. Hence, the underlying and fundamental premise of this research is that the classification of psychosocial needs established in the Rehabilitation and Ongoing Care Programme of the Protocol for Ongoing Care (2004) that is followed by the Madrid Regional Office for Mental Health (the point of access for rehabilitation resources) has become anachronistic. Indeed, this situation has led to an increase in bureaucratisation...