Rehabilitation as a field has passed through several stages in psychiatry:
a. the “moral support” era;
b. the phase of involvement of psychiatric patients into professional
rehabilitation programs, organized through community support;
c. the community-oriented ideology development phase;
d. the psycho-social rehabilitation center “movement” and
e. the skills improvement, technology development, and effective psychiatric
intervention phase.
Contemporary psychiatry is unimaginable without such establishments
as psychosocial rehabilitation day care centers. This article explores
why the open day care center type facility was necessary in Georgia, describes
how a new type psychosocial rehabilitation center has been established
and discusses the challenges faced by the setting up of different community-based
services.