Paradigms in rehabilitation – treatment in social psychiatry

Background/Objectives: Being a resident at a Danish social psychiatric home implies in most cases also being affiliated to treatment psychiatry. In a macro perspective, both domains share the same purpose, i.e. to support the rehabilitation of the service users. However, social and treatment psychiatry in Denmark are divided into different public sectors, subjected to different laws, dominated by different professions and also, traditionally, subjected to different paradigms on how to work on rehabilitation. Social psychiatry has traditionally been subscribed to the recovery-orientation, while treatment psychiat…