Principles of the Psychosocial Framework for Case Management Services:
- Hope is an essential ingredient; people have the capacity to learn and grow.
- Services are individualized and premised on self determination and empowerment.
- The goal is to restore the individual’s ability for independent living and effective life management in the community – normalization.
- A focus is on the assessment of the skills and environmental limitations that the individual experiences due to the serious mental illness.
- Planning focuses on the individual acquiring skills to be effective in living independently.
- Helping individuals to acquire community and social resources that support their independence is emphasized.
- The focus is not just alleviating symptoms of the mental illness.
- Stigma, poverty, and inadequate treatment must be addressed.