| Those who have serious and persistent types of mental illness generally sustain more hardship than those with other types of mental illness, including difficulty or inability to maintain employment, live independently in the community, or simply to have hope for the future. Treatment for this population has shown to be substantially more costly than other types of mental illness for both direct and indirect treatment expenditures. The topic of this study was to determine if recovery-based psychiatric rehabilitation used in conjunction with conventional treatment was more cost effective than the use of conventional treatment alone, had improved cost benefit, and if it had a positive net benefit return on investment. The results of the study provided evidence there is a probable relationship between recovery based psychiatric rehabilitation treatment methodology and positive cost benefit outcomes, positive cost effectiveness outcomes regarding reducing costs while increasing the number of days mental health consumers were able to live independently in the community and reducing the number of days clients were held on court ordered treatment certification, improving some scores on standardized clinical outcome measures, and a positive net benefit return on investment. |
