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Need for Family-Centric Rehabilitation to Mitigate Socio Genesis of Mental Illness: Case Scenarios

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Mental illness has various dimensions ranging from core biological reasons to socio-environmental reasons. The overwhelming social stressors, including unemployment, poverty, migration, family disintegration, has ascribed sociogenic reasons for mental illness. Sociogenic factors can impact the family's overall functioning and the mental health outcomes of the client. Family centric rehabilitation focuses on the family rather than the individual. The study used retrospective file review to explore the sociogenesis of mental illness in families of people with mental illness. This paper depicts two case examples of how family-centric rehabilitation can be used as an effective intervention to deal with the sociogenesis of mental illness; especially in improving the functioning of the individual, better understanding of the family members about the illness, a significant reduction in the family expressed emotions and an improvement in the social support to the client. Family centric rehabilitation can be a helpful intervention to mitigate the sociogenesis of mental illness in the family.

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  1. Department of Psychiatric Social Work, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bengaluru, India

    Roniyamol Roy

  2. Department of Psychiatric Social Work, Psychiatric Social Work, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Room no: 106, Govindaswamy Building, 1st Floor, Hombegowda Nagar, Hosur Road, Bengaluru, India

    Aarti Jagannathan

  3. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services, Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bengaluru, India

    Jagadisha Thirthalli

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Roy, R., Jagannathan, A. & Thirthalli, J. Need for Family-Centric Rehabilitation to Mitigate Socio Genesis of Mental Illness: Case Scenarios. J. Psychosoc. Rehabil. Ment. Health 9, 433–439 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40737-022-00266-8

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