El cambio en los modelos del trabajo social en salud mental: del modelo rehabilitador al modelo social

Abstract

Currently, the rehabilitation approach is the guiding model in mental health care as well as in society in general. This standard demands individuals to fit in their environment, making them responsible for their limitations and rejecting difference. From that point of view, a person becomes a user or a consumer, which reinforces discrimination through established ideas and mechanisms of institutional control. From the beginning, social work emerges as a discipline that recognizes individuals' capacities and experiences in a singular way, making it easier for them to star in their life story. For that reason, one of the main goals in mental health care is the decategorization of the difference which perpetuates the stigma. This idea is closely linked to the social approach, which conceives the whole human life in terms of equal dig- nity conditions, which makes it easier for people with mental disorders to be acknowledged as citizens with full rights and obligations in the society they are living in