Day Centers as Meeting Places and Turning Points in the Rehabilitation Pathway. Issue 1 (2nd January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Peloso, Paolo Francesco; Valentini, Lucia
• Is Part Of: International journal of mental health. Volume 45:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 42
• Page End: 50
• Publication Date: 2016-01-02
• Subjects: mental illness -- community psychiatry -- Italy -- rehabilitation -- day center; Mental health -- Periodicals; Psychiatry -- Periodicals; Mental health; Psychiatry; Periodicals; 616.89005
• DOI: 10.1080/00207411.2015.1131055
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0020-7411

Abstract

Abstract: In this article we describe the features of the Day Centers in the Italian Mental Health Departments. The Day Centers is a place, generally separate from the Community Mental Health Centers, where psychiatric services offer recreation and rehabilitation activities to a number of clients, ranging from 5–10 to 100 or more, depending on the size of the facility and the type of activity undertaken, for a period that should be limited and finalized to the full reintroduction within society and a work environment. We describe multiple models and functions of the Italian Day Centers in an historical perspective.