About the Faculty of Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry

The Faculty

• The work of the Executive
• Executive Committee
• Research projects related to the Faculty
• AIMS-Rehab
• Regional representatives
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The work of the Executive

• To provide the College with expert opinion in the fields of rehabilitation and enduring psychiatric disability.
• To provide advice on social policies as they affect persons with enduring psychiatric disability.
• To promote and develop Postgraduate Training in Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry.
• To encourage and promote scientific study and research in enduring psychiatric disability and the social factors that limit functioning.
• To act as the coordinating body for the regional networks of Rehabilitation Psychiatrists.

The Rehabilitation and Social Faculty was created in 1997 as a result of the reorganisation of former Faculties within the College. Previously a Section of Social and Community Rehabilitation Psychiatry had represented the interests and concerns of Social and Community Psychiatrists as well as Rehabilitation Psychiatrists.

After the reorganisation, Community Psychiatry was put together with General Psychiatry leaving Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry on their own. As Rehabilitation Psychiatry is currently a sub-speciality of General Psychiatry and does not have its own CCST, it did not qualify for Faculty status and thus became a Section.

The Faculty currently has approximately 1600 members. They are mailed approximately three times a year, informed about Faculty’s activities and take part in the Faculty’s elections.

The Faculty holds one annual residential meeting a year usually lasting two days. The topics range from reports of scientific research to workshops on practical clinical interventions and service delivery.

Executive Committee

Regional representatives

The Regional Representatives are the Faculty’s link to the specialty locally.  They are invited to attend central Executive Committee meetings both to feed back to the College local concern about what is happening to services and to the people who use them and to influence College and national policies on rehabilitation and recovery.  Regional Representatives have influence locally on job descriptions for consultants and specialty doctors and have the opportunity to offer Rehabilitation expertise to local deaneries and schools of psychiatry.

List of regional representatives