Plan:
Symposium – 60 minutes
3 x 10 minute presentations: Carol Harvey, Dorothy Belperio, Catherine Brasier
30 minute interactive panel discussion with the audience including Q&A, chaired by Lisa Brophy

In our current environment, people with psychosocial disabilities who have significant functional impact are supported via the National Disability Insurance Scheme. To provide optimum support for people impacted by psychosocial disabilities this requires us to consider rehabilitation interventions in the context of both a clinical setting and community setting, where the community support is provided by non-clinical staff working in a range of non-government organisations. Where is the common ground and intersections in how psychosocial rehabilitation is delivered in clinical and community settings and how can lived experience be embedded in the provision and evolution of rehabilitation?

This symposium will consider the distinctions in these different approaches, how community support can be considered a form of psychosocial rehabilitation, how lived experience is included and challenge that rehabilitation is the domain of state/territory health services.
This symposium is presented by members of the World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation (WAPR) Australia. www.wapraus.org.au

Presentation 1: Carol Harvey
Title: Psychosocial Rehabilitation: What is it; which consumer outcomes are supported; and how are these outcomes best achieved across clinical and community settings, according to the evidence?

This presentation will define psychosocial rehabilitation. Key findings of a systematic review and narrative synthesis of models of care relevant to psychosocial rehabilitation will be summarised. Personal, clinical and functional recovery outcomes associated with these models were synthesised, demonstrating the potential for these models to contribute to each of these outcomes to varying degrees. Supported accommodation will be considered as an example of a model which, according to best practice, should be provided through an integrated approach across clinical and community sectors. The review’s conclusions concerning the need to include lived and living experience in the design, delivery, implementation, and research of these models of care will be highlighted,

Presentation 2: Dorothy Belperio
Title: Psychosocial Rehabilitation in the community; moving beyond a ‘clinical only’ focus to a NDIS context

This presentation will explore what community based psychosocial rehabilitation looks like and how it can be delivered within the context of non-clinical NDIS funded community supports. This will include noting the NDIS Applied Principles and Tables of Support (APTOS), which distinguish the roles and responsibilities of the different jurisdictions, currently determine that rehabilitation is the domain of state/territory health services. The significance of a skilled workforce, the recommendation for specialised psychosocial support in the NDIS Review and examples of community delivered psychosocial rehabilitation will be discussed.

Presentation 3: Catherine Brasier
Title: Lived experience workforce and its impact on psychosocial rehabilitation

This presentation will explore the role of lived experience workforce in delivering community based psychosocial rehabilitation. The discussion will consider how lived experience roles contribute to the navigation and enhancement of NDIS services and have the potential to strengthen psychosocial rehabilitation in supporting personal recovery and meeting consumer goals.