Expressions Recovery Studio for Veterans with Serious Mental Illness

Expressions Recovery Studio for Veterans with Serious Mental Illness

Introduction

Creative expressions are helpful in connecting people at various stages during their recovery from mental illness to get inner healing from their disease. Creative expressions could be used effectively for the recovery of veterans who possess serious mental illness. It is significant that there are numerous ways to self expression. There are various artistic disciplines through which creativity could be explored. The most significant methods of exploring creativity include music, drama, visual arts, dance, creative writing and photography. All these activities involve the participants in a recovery process that involves a holistic health framework for accessing mental, physical, spiritual and social wellbeing.

Aims and Objectives

The proposed aim perceived for the expression recovery, the following aims and objectives have been determined.

Creation of a studio in which the veterans could enjoy their life with a creative expressions recovery program.

Motivating and encouraging veterans to live a fulfilling life and developing their full potential for living a healthy life.

Promotion of community integration through skill building and effective symptom management involving a variety of different development activities.

Description of the Program

In accordance with the aims and objectives of the program, the program that has been planned includes a number of interesting facilities for the veterans to develop their full potential and live a fulfilling life to maintain their good health. The program will be including a wide variety of activities in which the veterans could involve themselves for their personal development and better personal health. These activities would also help the veterans to achieve a meaningful and self determined role within the community and get recognized through their talent. This program will provide a variety of skills to be developed through different activities including self expression, social skills, coping with symptoms and striving for their personal goals (Malchiodi, 2012). This program would also provide an opportunity for the veterans to achieve their goals and objectives that would have been completed yet in life due to various reasons.

Anticipated Change in the Program

This program would provide classes for the veterans with the help of which they would be able to develop different skills and abilities. In addition to this, the program will also aim to partner with some recovery advisors who would direct the veterans to define and strive towards their personal goals to be achieved. The interdisciplinary staff that would be engaged in the program will include people from different fields involving nursing, psychology, occupational therapy, social work, creative arts therapy, trainees, peer support and volunteers. If an opportunity would be granted, it would be ensured that most of the staff kept responsible for this program would be certified in Psychiatric Rehabilitation. For instance, a class of Brainstorm would be conducted that will enable the veterans to boost their brain power that would be helpful for the participants to think intelligently about their interests and objectives. In addition to this, the Dual recover class would be conducted in order to focus on ...