Education in Psychiatric Rehabilitation Column—Psychiatric Rehabilitation Education for Psychiatrists
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Canada, education, psychiatric rehabilitation, psychiatryAbstract
Psychiatric rehabilitation is a core type of evidence-based, promising, and emerging person-centered mental health care interventions for people with psychiatric disabilities. Yet psychiatrists appear to be undereducated in relation to psychiatric rehabilitation. Tis article reports on psychiatric rehabilitation education for Canadian psychiatrists and psychiatry residents to facilitate knowledge on psychiatric education for psychiatrists. A selective literature review with education-focused auto-ethnography is used. It seems that much more psychiatric education for psychiatrists in Canada and elsewhere is needed. In
particular, psychiatric education for psychiatry residents is needed to educate psychiatrists early on in their specialty training in relation to psychiatric rehabilitation in particular and in relation to person-centered mental health care more generally. Consistent
implementation and evaluation of such education would be helpful, preferably guided by policy such as in relation to national standards for psychiatric care that must incorporate psychiatric rehabilitation.
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