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Eve Psychosocial Rehabilitation Centre emphasises individual recovery, effective social integration, and a better quality of life in individuals who have psychiatric illness or a psychological disorder and/or substance use problem. Psychosocial rehabilitation programmes are a critical component of the community care spectrum because they are interdisciplinary, person-directed, and individualised. It actively supports persons in developing skills and gaining access to resources that will boost their potential to be successful and satisfied in their desired living, working, learning, and social settings, and include a diverse range of benefits and interventions.

Psychosocial rehabilitation programme is an evidence-based and viable practice in major life domains such as employment, education, leisure, wellness, and basic living skills, as well as family involvement, peer support, and professional guidance. These strategies are widely offered to those living with long-term psychiatric and psychological conditions and/or substance use disorders due to their documented success and rehabilitative orientation.

For over 20 years, the starting point at Eve Psychosocial Rehabilitation centre has been the individual using our mental health service. Individuals with psychiatric illness or a psychological disorder and/or substance use problems often have a wide range of needs that may be social and psychological. We wish for them to have access not just to doctors and nurses, but to psychologists, in house assistant counsellors, occupational therapists, and other therapists. We want them as well as their caregivers to have access to the range of interventions offered by this variety of mental health professionals.

Since the 2000’s our mental health care has moved from the mental hospital to community-based care which now also offers an extensive care facility to cater to the stabilisation needs of these individuals. These included increasing emphasis on human rights, understanding of the detrimental effects of institutionalisation, the involvement of family and service user organisations, value for money, and the influence of the therapeutic community movement.

The need to set up community-based alternatives to hospital treatment and to ensure coordinated health and social care for the mentally ill establishes our team as a central feature of modern mental health care.

We at Eve Psychosocial Rehabilitation Centre are pushing to change the way we view and talk about mental health.

We have a radically different vision of severe mental illness from the one held by most of those in the mental health field and most in society that mental illness is a brain disorder that can be treated only with medication.
For decades, the psychiatric field took diagnosis to be fundamental disregarding the fact that social experience plays a significant role in who becomes mentally ill, when they fall ill and how their illness unfolds. We believe that we should view mental illness as caused not only by brain deficits but also by abuse, deprivation, and inequality, which alter the way brains behave.

Mental health challenges result from the complexity intertwined in our biology and social, psychological, spiritual, cultural, and historical forces. To fully understand mental health conditions, we need to consider the complex interplay between all these factors. Illness thus requires biopsychosocial interventions, not just pharmacological ones.

Our counsellors, therapists, and psychiatrists work hand in hand to personalise and explain the true, complex forces that lead to mental health conditions and explore how to reduce or manage these risk factors, they see increased empowerment and reduced internalised stigma in their participants with mental health conditions using both pharmacological and biopsychosocial interventions parallelly.

Antipsychotic medications are helpful, but there is no evidence that it corrects an underlying biological or psychological abnormality. It is important that those who suffer from distressing symptoms be allowed to talk about their experiences. We believe that this helps them make sense of what has happened to them. The mental health services available now rarely make such opportunities available.

Hence why, we strive to redefine the way we approach mental health and its management one step at a time with a multidimensional approach using Biopsychosocial interventions. We strive to move away from labels of diagnosis. We treat the individual and not the illness. Empowerment gives people a sense of greater control over their own lives. We would like to see more people getting it.

This was the pursuit of David and Mary, a warm loving couple who saw the need for a space for people with mental health conditions that functions like a family and eludes the white walled hospital setting that lacks warmth. Both with extensive experience in running homes and strong connections with the local medical professionals poured their love into this project.

Years later, their children Eve and Jared joined management of the space and together they have seen it through expansions, development of programmes and a growing Professional Family.