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Szpital Wolski, Wolskie Centrum Zdrowia Psychicznego
Submission date: 2025-04-16
Final revision date: 2025-06-02
Acceptance date: 2025-06-06
Publication date: 2025-09-19
Psychoter 2025;213(2):51-63
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Supportive housing is an attempt to find an alternative to the asylum model of treatment while ensuring continuity of psychiatric care, going beyond that goes beyond mere hospitalization. ItThey take different forms and isare based on other ways of understanding the disease, the patient's capabilities, and the assumptions made about the purpose of the care provided. Usually, analyses of itstheir functioning focus on technical aspects, leaving out of the center of interest reflections on the influence of the candidates' psychological structure, group processes, the dynamics of transference-countertransference processes, and the recurringreproducing experiences of participants outside the main focus.
This article describes the experience of working in supportive housing for, addressed to psychotic patients, as part of the Mental Health Center. From November 2019 to August 2022, the author was a coordinator responsible for organizing the work and qualifying participants.
The presented material aims to show the possibilities of using supportive housing as an effective therapeutic tool to broaden participants' insight into the motives behind their decisions and willingness to bear the consequences. At the same time, itthere was an attempts to draw attention to several psychological factors and mechanisms influencing the course of the stay and the dynamics of the relationships between residents and staff.