“just like any other illness” 10/16/2015 Mental illness is just like physical illness, and ‘deserves’ the same treatment. For a while this had been the paradigm for our society. I remember early in my career, when I was on the national board of IAPSRS (the International Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services, predecessor to the current Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association) in the early days of psychiatric rehabilitation, in the late seventies (I think). I was talking with then-Executive Director Ruth Hughes
Mental illness is just like physical illness, and ‘deserves’ the same treatment. For a while this had been the paradigm for our society. I remember early in my career, when I was on the national board of IAPSRS (the International Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services, predecessor to the current Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association) in the early days of psychiatric rehabilitation, in the late seventies (I think). I was talking with then-Executive Director Ruth Hughes
