Eve Psychosocial Rehabilitation Centre emphasises individual recovery, effective social integration, and a better quality of life in individuals who have psychiatric illness or a psychological disorder and/or substance use problem. Psychosocial rehabilitation programmes are a critical component of the community care spectrum because they are interdisciplinary, person-directed, and individualised. It actively supports persons in developing skills and gaining access to resources that will boost their potential to be successful and satisfied in their desired living, working, learning, and social settings, and include a diverse range of benefits and interventions.

Psychosocial rehabilitation programme is an evidence-based and viable practice in major life domains such as employment, education, leisure, wellness, and basic living skills, as well as family involvement, peer support, and professional guidance. These strategies are widely offered to those living with long-term psychiatric and psychological conditions and/or substance use disorders due to their documented success and rehabilitative orientation.

For over 20 years, the starting point at Eve Psychosocial Rehabilitation centre has been the individual using our mental health service. Individuals with psychiatric illness or a psychological disorder and/or substance use problems often have a wide range of needs that may be social and psychological. We wish for them to have access not just to doctors and nurses, but to psychologists, in house assistant counsellors, occupational therapists, and other therapists. We want them as well as their caregivers to have access to the range of interventions offered by this variety of mental health professionals.

Since the 2000’s our mental health care has moved from the mental hospital to community-based care which now also offers an extensive care facility to cater to the stabilisation needs of these individuals. These included increasing emphasis on human rights, understanding of the detrimental effects of institutionalisation, the involvement of family and service user organisations, value for money, and the influence of the therapeutic community movement.

The need to set up community-based alternatives to hospital treatment and to ensure coordinated health and social care for the mentally ill establishes our team as a central feature of modern mental health care.