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Mental Health Care Act, 2002 (Act No. 17 of 2002)

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Regulations for Licensing Community Mental Health Day Care and Residential Care Facilities for People with Mental Illness and or Severe or Profound Intellectual Disability, 2025 - effective 20 December 2026

20. Psychosocial rehabilitation

 

(1) The facility must provide psychosocial rehabilitation programmes that must include, but not limited to—
(a) stimulation;
(b) activities of daily living;
(c) cognitive enhancement;
(d) psycho-motor skills improvement;
(e) reality orientation;
(f) personal safety and security awareness;
(g) community re-integration;
(h) pre-vocational and life skills training;
(i) optimal mobility training;
(j) psychosocial needs; or
(k) leisure and social skills training.

 

(2) The licensee must ensure that—
(a) there is a daily attendance register for all programmes.
(b) there is evidence of all rehabilitation intervention and progress reports recorded in each user's file.
(c) all therapeutic tools and equipment are available, maintained and stored appropriately.
(d) tables and chairs are adequate for the number of users in the facility.
(e) there is availability of appropriate assistive devices for all users in need of such.
(f) all staff are trained in the correct use of assistive devices and a record is kept for the training done.
(g) facility has an (SLA) Service Level Agreement with a local health facility for repairs of assistive devices.
(h) there is access to community outreach rehabilitation services (Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Speech Therapy and Audiology).
(i) there is quarterly multi-disciplinary team visits and reports are compiled.
(j) there are records of visits conducted by the multi-disciplinary team and copies or summary of the quarterly reports are available.
(k) there is evidence of annual rehabilitation in-service training based on the training needs.