SOCIAL REHABILITATION OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN THE CONDITIONS OF A PSYCHONEUROLOGICAL BOARDING SCHOOL: THEORETICAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

The article theoretically substantiates the problems of social rehabilitation of people with disabilities in the conditions of a psychoneurological boarding school.Psychoneurological boarding schools are included in the general system of psychiatric care in Ukraine, thus they are institutions of the social sphere. Such institutions are intended for the residence of people with chronic forms of mental illness. Usually, these people are unable to live in a family and society due to lost or undeveloped abilities for self-care, self-sufficiency and productive communicative activity. The main goal of the psychoneurological boarding school is to steadily improve the quality of life of people with disabilities, to create a favorable therapeutic environment for them, adequate to their age, health and individual characteristics.The author found out that the special contribution of social work to the field of mental health in the world is that its focus is much wider than the medical model of individual diagnosis and treatment, and involves identifying and responding to social inequalities and structural problems, including using various methods of care and support for people with mental health problems. However, in Ukraine there are significant obstacles to using the potential of social work in the field of mental health, and a significant part of them is related to the understanding of the content of social work, the lack of necessary standards and the practice of involving social workers to work in health care institutions, while not the subject of research is the issue of rehabilitation in the conditions of a psychoneurological boarding school.The theoretical basis of the study consists of the basic provisions regarding the content of social rehabilitation of persons with disabilities through the prism of the activity of a psychoneurological boarding school.We see the prospects for further research in the development of scientific provisions on the structure of a psychoneurological boarding school in the context of departments for recipients of social services; practical experience of social rehabilitation of people with disabilities in the conditions of a psychoneurological boarding school.