Aims and scope
This multidisciplinary journal focuses on recovery-oriented care of persons with mental health problems and on their rehabilitation. It considers for publication original research articles in the following subjects:
- Rehabilitation assessment in various mental health and community settings
- Developmental disorders and substance use disorders
- Measures to assess and monitor recovery, rehabilitation needs of patients and family members
- Barriers to successful rehabilitation, recovery-oriented interventions, legal issues in rehabilitation
- Measures to combat stigma
- Disability and welfare measures
- Novel rehabilitation interventions
- Socio-cultural issues in rehabilitation
- Rehabilitation orientation in teaching and practice
- Organization and coordination issues in rehabilitation
- User perspectives
- Caregivers’ perspectives, coping and stress
- Rehabilitation advocacy
The journal invites submission of papers in the above-mentioned subjects and topics as-
- Original research
- Brief reports [up to 1500 words including references]
- Guest editorials
- Case discussions [up to 1500 words including references]
- Debates, commentaries, controversies, essays [up to 1500 words]
- Narrative and systematic reviews
- Invited articles and reviews
- Letters to editor and correspondence
- Book reviews [up to 1500 words]
- Review of rehabilitation facilities & services [up to 1500 words]
- User and caregiver perspective articles [up to 1500 words]
- Creative writing like poetry and paintings made by users, carers or professionals
- News and notes from the field of psychosocial rehabilitation