School of Social Work and Social Welfare, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel.
Community Ment Health J. 2011 Oct;47(5):568-72. doi: 10.1007/s10597-011-9387-8. Epub 2011 Jan 28.
An innovative culturally-oriented supported-education program has been established in Israel to address the needs of religious Jewish persons with severe mental illness. This program is utilizing a highly regarded institution in the Orthodox communities, a Beit Midrash, a study hall for religious studies, as a context for rehabilitation. Based on open-ended interviews conducted with the staff members of this program, its conceptual framework and guiding principles have been identified and analyzed. In this program common principles of psychiatric rehabilitation have been adapted and incorporated into a context which has not been known so far as a context for psychiatric rehabilitation. In addition, innovative supported-education methods of work which are compatible with the cultural context of Orthodox Jewish persons have been implemented, such as opportunities provided to the participants to reconstruct their views of their daily struggles and enhance their sense of spirituality via the discussion of socially-oriented religious texts. The culturally-oriented context of the Beit Midrash enables outreach to a population which might otherwise not receive any services. This is a promising model for addressing the unique needs of religious persons with severe mental illness and for filling a gap in the resources available for the rehabilitation of this population in the community.
以色列建立了一项创新的文化导向支持教育计划，以满足有严重精神疾病的宗教犹太教徒的需求。该计划利用正统社区中备受推崇的机构，即学习犹太教的研究中心 Beit Midrash，作为康复的背景。基于对该计划工作人员进行的开放式访谈，确定并分析了其概念框架和指导原则。在这个计划中，常见的精神康复原则已经被适应，并融入到一个迄今为止不为人知的精神康复背景中。此外，还实施了与正统犹太教徒文化背景兼容的创新支持教育工作方法，例如为参与者提供机会，通过讨论面向社会的宗教文本，重建他们对日常斗争的看法，并增强他们的精神感。Beit Midrash 的文化导向背景使服务能够覆盖到那些可能无法获得任何服务的人群。这是一个有前途的模式，可以满足有严重精神疾病的宗教人士的独特需求，并填补该人群在社区康复资源方面的空白。
