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Social skills training as a way of improving quality of life among chronic mentally ill patients: presentation of a theoretical model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

O Chambon ,
T Eckman ,
A Trinh ,
RP Liberman  and
M Marie-Cardine
O Chambon
Affiliation:
Service Hospitalo Universitaire de Psychiatrie (Pr Marie-Cardine), Hôpital psychiatrique le Vinatier, 95 Bd Pinel, 69677Bron Cedex, France
T Eckman
Affiliation:
Rehabilitation Medecine Service (B117), Brentwood VA Medical center, 11301Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles CA90073USA
A Trinh
Affiliation:
Rehabilitation Medecine Service (B117), Brentwood VA Medical center, 11301Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles CA90073USA
RP Liberman
Affiliation:
Rehabilitation Medecine Service (B117), Brentwood VA Medical center, 11301Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles CA90073USA
M Marie-Cardine
Affiliation:
Service Hospitalo Universitaire de Psychiatrie (Pr Marie-Cardine), Hôpital psychiatrique le Vinatier, 95 Bd Pinel, 69677Bron Cedex, France
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Summary

Social skill training is aimed at not only preventing rehospitalization of chronic psychiatric patients by maintaining them in the community, but also to help patients have a good quality of life. We address the question of how social skill training could improve the quality of life of chronic mentally ill patients. A theoretical model, including environmental as well as individual considerations, indicates which psychological factors could be both targets of social skill training interventions and determinatives of patients subjective quality of life. The clinical and research implications of this theoretical model are discussed.

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social skillchronic mentally ill patientrehabilitationquality of life

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European Psychiatry , Volume 7 , Issue 5 , 1992 , pp. 213 - 220
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Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1992

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