1. Orient the person to the purpose and process of Assessing Readiness.
2. Interview the person about the factors of need, commitment, environmental awareness, self-awareness, and personal closeness.
3. Assist the person in conducting a self-rating of each readiness factor and his/her overall readiness.
4. Explore the person’s reasons for her/his ratings.
5. Rate each readiness factor as well as the overall readiness, and explain your ratings and the reasons for the ratings to the person.
6. Discuss the similarities and differences in the two ratings.
7. Change ratings as needed to reflect the service recipient’s perspective.
8. If the service recipient is unable or unwilling to participate in the assessing readiness process, identify an Engagement Role Recovery Goal.
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It promotes recovery, full community integration, and improved quality of life for persons who have been diagnosed with any mental health condition that seriously impairs their ability to lead meaningful lives. Rehabilitation program focus on helping individuals develop skills and access resources needed to increase their capacity to be successful and satisfied in the living, working, learning, and socialize in the environments of their choice.
Readiness assessment is a very important aspect in involving patient into the rehabilitation activities, it helps individuals “judge for themselves” whether or not it makes sense to them to engage in rehabilitation services. It also give the health practitioner the clear picture of level of the consumer’s commitment to participating in rehabilitation activities. It has been observed readiness assessment for the psychiatric patient of MNH is a