Robert Paul Liberman, M.D., is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and Director of the UCLA Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program, at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Through easy-to- understand language, illustrations, and case examples, the author provides readers with some keys to augmentation of the treatment of patients with various types of mental health disorders. The book offers practical advice and, better yet, reasonable techniques and guidelines for enhancing treatment success for patients. With historic vision, clinical sensibility, and scientific tenacity, Dr. Robert P. Liberman has been a founding father of psychiatric rehabilitation, developing it to form a cornerstone of treatment for persons with serious mental illness. Clinicians from all disciplines who serve persons with severe mental illnesses will benefit by including this book in their library.Recovery from Disability: Manual of Psychiatric Rehabilitation is a landmark achievement.This book is highly recommended fir psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses or other health care worker who wish to help seriously ill psychiatric patients reach their personal goals and achieve a higher quality of life.The author's breadth of knowledge in the field is demonstrated through the multiple well researched examples of recovery in practice that he cites. The author's personal passion for the possibilities that recovery brings, which is evident throughout, makes the book more compelling. The clinical examples make the text more readable and show how theory takes shape in the lives of individuals and families. The learning examples in each chapter give readers the chance to build skills and apply what they have learned to their current practice. The book addresses all of the multi-faceted components of recovery, breaking each component into manageable steps for practitioners and their clients. The section on social skills training, in particular, is excellent. The introductorysection on terminology is also appropriate and thought provoking.

• ForewordPreface AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Terminology Chapter 1. Rehabilitation as the road to recovery Chapter 2. Principles and Practice of Psychiatric rehabilitation Chapter 3. Illness Management Chapter 4. Functional assessment Chapter 5. Social skills training Chapter 6. Involving families in treatment and rehabilitationChapter 7. Vocational rehabilitationChapter 8. Vehicles for Delivering rehabilitation servicesChapter 9. Special services for special PeopleChapter 10. New Developments for rehabilitation and recovery

Robert Paul Liberman, M.D., is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and Director of the UCLA Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program, at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Through easy-to- understand language, illustrations, and case examples, the author provides readers with some keys to augmentation of the treatment of patients with various types of mental health disorders. The book offers practical advice and, better yet, reasonable techniques and guidelines for enhancing treatment success for patients. With historic vision, clinical sensibility, and scientific tenacity, Dr. Robert P. Liberman has been a founding father of psychiatric rehabilitation, developing it to form a cornerstone of treatment for persons with serious mental illness. Clinicians from all disciplines who serve persons with severe mental illnesses will benefit by including this book in their library.Recovery from Disability: Manual of Psychiatric Rehabilitation is a landmark achievement.This book is highly recommended fir psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses or other health care worker who wish to help seriously ill psychiatric patients reach their personal goals and achieve a higher quality of life.The author's breadth of knowledge in the field is demonstrated through the multiple well researched examples of recovery in practice that he cites. The author's personal passion for the possibilities that recovery brings, which is evident throughout, makes the book more compelling. The clinical examples make the text more readable and show how theory takes shape in the lives of individuals and families. The learning examples in each chapter give readers the chance to build skills and apply what they have learned to their current practice. The book addresses all of the multi-faceted components of recovery, breaking each component into manageable steps for practitioners and their clients. The section on social skills training, in particular, is excellent. The introductorysection on terminology is also appropriate and thought provoking.

• ForewordPreface AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Terminology Chapter 1. Rehabilitation as the road to recovery Chapter 2. Principles and Practice of Psychiatric rehabilitation Chapter 3. Illness Management Chapter 4. Functional assessment Chapter 5. Social skills training Chapter 6. Involving families in treatment and rehabilitationChapter 7. Vocational rehabilitationChapter 8. Vehicles for Delivering rehabilitation servicesChapter 9. Special services for special PeopleChapter 10. New Developments for rehabilitation and recovery

Robert Paul Liberman, M.D., is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and Director of the UCLA Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program, at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Through easy-to- understand language, illustrations, and case examples, the author provides readers with some keys to augmentation of the treatment of patients with various types of mental health disorders. The book offers practical advice and, better yet, reasonable techniques and guidelines for enhancing treatment success for patients. With historic vision, clinical sensibility, and scientific tenacity, Dr. Robert P. Liberman has been a founding father of psychiatric rehabilitation, developing it to form a cornerstone of treatment for persons with serious mental illness. Clinicians from all disciplines who serve persons with severe mental illnesses will benefit by including this book in their library.Recovery from Disability: Manual of Psychiatric Rehabilitation is a landmark achievement.This book is highly recommended fir psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses or other health care worker who wish to help seriously ill psychiatric patients reach their personal goals and achieve a higher quality of life.The author's breadth of knowledge in the field is demonstrated through the multiple well researched examples of recovery in practice that he cites. The author's personal passion for the possibilities that recovery brings, which is evident throughout, makes the book more compelling. The clinical examples make the text more readable and show how theory takes shape in the lives of individuals and families. The learning examples in each chapter give readers the chance to build skills and apply what they have learned to their current practice. The book addresses all of the multi-faceted components of recovery, breaking each component into manageable steps for practitioners and their clients. The section on social skills training, in particular, is excellent. The introductorysection on terminology is also appropriate and thought provoking.

• ForewordPreface AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Terminology Chapter 1. Rehabilitation as the road to recovery Chapter 2. Principles and Practice of Psychiatric rehabilitation Chapter 3. Illness Management Chapter 4. Functional assessment Chapter 5. Social skills training Chapter 6. Involving families in treatment and rehabilitationChapter 7. Vocational rehabilitationChapter 8. Vehicles for Delivering rehabilitation servicesChapter 9. Special services for special PeopleChapter 10. New Developments for rehabilitation and recovery