Rehabilitation versus Recovery

the last few decades have seen a tremendous increase in efforts to improve current psychiatric services and incorporate a number of new innovations and initiatives in different areas of mental health. Rehabilitation Psychiatry like many other specialties is also emerging as an important sub-specialty in almost all countries. However, it is still a neglected specialty within the context of mental health services. Recovery has emerged as a new model in the practice of psychosocial rehabilitation and is currently advocated as a concept, as a model and as a preferred way of empowering patients. However, recovery is viewed differently by patients, their families and even by different professionals involved in mental health care. This paper describes different concepts about recovery and rehabilitation and argues for formulating ideas for incorporating various aspects of the recovery process in establishing future rehabilitation services.