Social functioning mediates the relationship between psychiatric symptoms and recovery among veteran and community service users with serious mental illness.

Mary Katherine HowellMatthew MarggrafMaddison L TaylorLillian A HammerCynthia Y Girón-HernándezGabriella N CoakleyClayton H BrownAmy L DrapalskiSamantha M Hack

Published in: Psychiatric rehabilitation journal (2023)

Clinical providers working with persons with SMI should regularly assess social functioning in addition to assessing psychiatric symptoms and personal recovery factors and should incorporate social skills education into SMI group and individual treatments. Social functioning as a target of treatment may be especially beneficial for patients who are dissatisfied with other interventions or feel they have experienced the maximum benefit from treatment and are seeking additional methods to support personal recovery. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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