Instrumental measurements of recovery-oriented practice in psychiatric services.

Introduction: A team of community and rehabilitation staff from a regional mental hospital in Hong Kong has been adopting recovery-oriented practices since 2010 to enhance its services through organizational transformation. The REFOCUS model of the Recovery College of Maudsley Hospital has adopted a tool called INSPIRE, which measures the level of support and relationship. In this study, service users were invited to rate the received support and their relationship with service providers to benchmark our current service before we fully implement the REFOCUS model of practice.

Vocational outcomes of individuals with psychiatric disabilities participating in a supported competitive employment program.

The objective of this paper is to report on the vocational outcomes of individuals with psychiatric disabilities participating in a supported competitive employment (SCE) program. A total of 458 subjects enrolled in the present SCE program which was developed on the basis of the Supported Employment Model developed by Wehman [23] and the principles of the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) developed by Becker and Drake [5]. Of the 458 subjects, 308 (67.