Interview with William Anthony

William Anthony, Executive Director of the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Co-Author (with Director of Training, Marianne Farkas) discusses A Primer on the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Process.

Out of the Shadows

The Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation’s progressive approach to mental illness gives many the courage to step into the light.

Beyond the Myths About Job Retention

Evidence and Implications for Practice

Six Guiding Principles

A Description of Six Guiding Principles for the Provision of Technical Assistance

Two Perspectives on Peer-to-Peer Support

The Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation has long been an advocate of Peer-to- Peer Support. Steve Harrington, a peer, founder, and Executive Director of NAPS , the National Association of Peer Specialists (NAPS), answered questions about his experience, peer-specialists, and peer-support.

Recovery Promoting Relationships Scale

This study highlighted the crucial role mental health and rehabilitation practitioners play in promoting the recovery of individuals with serious mental illnesses through the acknowledgement of clients’ personhood and clients’ equipment with strategies that foster hope...

Workplace Inclusion

Although people with psychiatric disabilities express a desire to work, their efforts to find and keep a job are not always successful. Many factors contribute to lack of success, but one important factor is too often overlooked: negative attitudes in the workplace.

Distance Learning/Education

Distance education provides an effective budget-sparing solution for training, which is an essential component of effective service delivery.

Workforce Development

Direct services providers are the key to effective service delivery, yet they may be inadequately prepared for the work they are expected to do.

Center Website Resources

The Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation has endeavored, through its website, to provide a central location for useful information about some of the major issues facing individuals living with serious mental illness and those who support them in their journey to recovery.

Personal Assistance Services

People with lived experience frequently desire support to accomplish their goals. What steps should they take? Personal Assistance Services (PAS) and the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation’s Personal Assistance Services Curriculum may be part of the solution.

Supported Education

The undergraduate experience is the setting for their first attempts at independent and semi-independent living. They are also in an age group where many mental health issues first become apparent.

People Encountering People Training Project

Expertise in as a mental health provider can sometimes get in the way of the most fundamental starting point of a good helping relationship: seeing persons with significant mental illness as people first.

Systematic Review

In order to maintain confidence in our interventions as well as to ensure that they are more widely known and brought into use, the field of psychiatric rehabilitation must turn a critical eye to the fundamentals...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program

One of the driving forces behind the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship is the desire to reconcile the “science to service” gap and the need for rigorous and innovative research.

Using Photovoice to Fight the Stigma of Mental Illness

A Recovery Education Program engaging students by using Photovoice to explore health and wellness issues as experienced by adults with psychiatric disabilities.

Wellness and Recovery The Vision and the Pledge

The life span of people with psychiatric disabilities is decreasing at a staggering rate. At present, people with psychiatric disabilities have a life expectancy that is 25 years shorter than that of the general public.

Opportunities for Latinos
Oportunidades para latinos (en Español)

While the recovery vision for people with psychiatric disabilities has been put forward to guide policies and practice in state...

Principled Leadership in Mental Health Systems

There are considerable leadership challenges in public mental health arenas. Mental health leaders are subject to directives from all levels of executive and legislative bodies, the judicial system's constant...

Measuring Mental Health Outcomes

This newsletter provides resources for program administrators, managers, policy makers, and others about the implementation and use of outcome measurement. The drive toward...

Psychiatric Vocational Rehabilitation

The Certificate Program is a specific adaptation of psychiatric rehabilitation technology developed over the last 25 years at the Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation. It is structured...

The Psychiatric Rehabilitation Educators' Group

In 1993, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) began offering courses in its newly developed Associate of Science Degree Program in Psychiatric...

Recovery Education

This issue of Recovery and Rehabilitation highlights three different recovery education resources that have been used extensively and have also been successfully adapted by many consumers...

The Jump Start Initiative

The transition from adolescence to adulthood is a challenging time. One begins to leave behind the familiarity, structure, and support of school and family life and gradually embraces new...

Rehabilitation Readiness Concepts and Resources

The purpose of this newsletter is to discuss the concepts of assessing and developing readiness and to explain the distinctions between the readiness training technology and the practitioner tools...

Consumer Operated Service Program (COSP): A Multisite Research Initiative

Over the past twenty years, consumers of mental health services have developed and implemented numerous self-help initiatives to...

Training for the Future

To create an opportunity for people who experience psychiatric disability to acquire the needed skills and supports to compete in the world of work, the Training for the Future service program...

Alternative Approaches to Mental Health Care

The use of alternative approaches to mental health care can be substantially helpful to people living with severe mental illness as they cope with fatigue, insomnia, anxiety, and stressors that are often...

Community Action Grant for Service
System Change: The Latino Initiative

The mental health and psychiatric rehabilitation needs of underserved and diverse populations have come to the forefront of the field through...

The Recovery Center

In February 2000, the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University launched an innovative pilot program to assist people with psychiatric disabilities in their journey of recovery. This program...

Certificate Program in Psychiatric Vocational Rehabilitation

In an effort to help rehabilitation counselors in state vocational rehabilitation systems improve their skills to build and sustain...

The Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation has been jointly funded as a Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) in mental health by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) and the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).