Stabilisation of Chronic Illness

Often the families of a chronic psychiatric patient, which is in a clinic for a big part of his life, experience for this member a loss, as the activities, the meetings and the familial moments that they spend with the patient are particularly limited or sometimes non-existent.

In the past few year in Greece, there is an effort of social rehabilitation, via guest houses or day centres. Covering this need, Lyrakou Clinic, has begun a program of social rehabilitation with the main axis being the functionalism of this patient.

The growth of social dexterities as well as the practice of initially small activities such as bed lining and personal hygiene, play decisive role in the social rehabilitation of the individual.

Individual and group sessions of psychological education for the patients and their families, help the two sides through education and not ignorance, to not only coexist but also to collaborate and enjoy the family environment leaving behind the problems of mental illness.

Finally the learning of various dexterities as wax making, clay and various types of painting, give the possibility to the patient, to not only express himself but also to have a creative objective, in the big challenge of everyday routine.

Lyrakou Clinic is a helper in this psychiatric challenge of social rehabilitation, with a completely skilled personnel, taking into consideration not only the treatment or the repression of the symptoms of the disease, but also that the patients can regain the bet of life, as active members in the society.