ABSTRACT

While community-based programmes have gained recognition as an effective mental health intervention to improve the well-being and promote quality of life, their implementation remains a challenge. This is attributable to lack of necessary skills amongst professionals who have a responsibility to establish and manage these programmes. This article provides a framework for social workers to develop and implement community-based programmes for rural people with mental illness and their families. The framework was developed from an in-depth literature review and a comprehensive empirical study into the factors that influence the functioning and well-being of people with mental illness and their families at Mashashane, a rural community in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. The article argues that incorporating community inputs in the development of a framework ensures the relevance of the interventions to the identified needs and increases the likelihood of community acceptance.

摘要

虽然以社区为基础的计划已被公认为是一种有效的心理健康干预措施，可以改善福祉和提高生活质量，但它们的实施仍然是一个挑战。这是因为有责任建立和管理这些计划的专业人员缺乏必要的技能。本文为社会工作者制定和实施针对农村精神疾病患者及其家人的社区计划提供了一个框架。该框架是根据深入的文献回顾和对影响南非林波波省农村社区 Mashashane 的精神疾病患者及其家人的功能和福祉的因素进行的全面实证研究而开发的。