Different steps in schizophrenic patients' rehabilitation

The author revises different views and principles of rehabilitation, its connections with prevention and treatment. He tries to place it in the process of a schizophrenic patient's recuperation. In his opinion rehabilitation can be separated into different steps and the patient has by degrees to go through these forms of therapeutic methods and organizational facilities. Standing at the service of rehabilitation are special methods of therapies--as pharmaco--/long-acting drugs/, psycho-/different forms of group psychotherapy/socio-/work, creativity, music, sport and so on/therapies and different in-patient and half-way departments. These could be utilized only on the basis of careful theoretical planning and continuous control by the whole therapeutic team. Rehabilitation should be carried out as a process, starting in the admission ward but mainly done in an intermediate in-patient unit and/or in a half-way institute, but an only be completed by a follow-up. It is regarded first of all as a social activity, but without meantime neglecting any kind of medical measures.