Some of our current Projects:

  • Developing, implementing and evaluating the Narrative Enhancement and Cognitive Therapy for Self-Stigma (NECT) an intervention directed towards the recovery of internalized stigma and patient identity (funded by the NIH R34)
  • Individual Rehabilitation Plan Management: Evaluating the Implementation and Effectiveness of a New Case Management Service in Israel (funded by the Tauber Foundation and MOH)
  • Implementation of Evidence Based Medicine within physicians: Does nomination of EBM champions and training them improves physicians' clinical behavior and wards' climate? (funded by the Israel National Institute for Health Services Research and Health Policy).
  • Illness management and recovery (IMR)- evaluating IMR in a rehabilitation setting vs. hospital setting; evaluating IMR effectiveness among professionals group therapists Vs. consumers
  • Supportive Community-Housing Project (funded by the Israeli Ministry of Health)
  • Enhancing employment possibilities among women with serious mental illness (funded by the Israeli National Insurance Institution)
  • Reducing Stigma among employees of people with serious mental illness (funded by the Israeli National Insurance Institution)
  • Learning the "Club-house": A social and employment closed community for persons with serious mental illness in Israel (funded by the Israeli National Insurance Institution)
  • Evaluating study of the effectiveness of a dual disorder center (funded by the Israeli National Insurance Institution)
  • Evaluation study of the vocational effectiveness of a program designed to foster and support business development for people with psychiatric disabilities.

Training and Education

In addition to scholarship, the Center for Community Mental Health Research, Practice, and Policy has a central educational mission - to train undergraduate and graduate students, as well as clinicians working in the field and persons with serious mental illness (SMI), in the conduct of psychiatric rehabilitation research, interventions, principles and ideas.

Our current training programs include:

  • Illness management and recovery (IMR) to field clinicians (Psychiatrics, Psychologists, and Social workers) and to persons with SMI
  • Narrative enhancement and cognitive therapy for self-stigma (NECT) for persons with SMI and for their family relatives (FNECT)