The times they are a-changin: implementing new psychiatric rehabilitation models within a community care in the post COVID-19 era.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, community healthcare treatments have played a crucial role in early detection and intervention against the epidemic spreading (as most of the infected individuals were at home). For the national policy on mental health services in Italy, "the person as a community resource within a caring community" is still a crucial idea that the COVID-19 era helped to revive, together with the supremacy of the public healthcare pathway over the private one. In this article, new mental health rehabilitation models (such as the Personal Health Budget and the Individual Placement and Support) are suggested as useful intervention approaches on which to base psychiatric care within a community care in the post COVID-19 era.

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Italian Public Mental Health Services: Experience and Future Directions.

The COVID-19 pandemic has crosses every health care area (from primary care to specialist ones), leading to a review of all public health policies. The use of smart working allows important technological innovations, but it must be accompanied by a review of hospital and residential programs and locations. Since many institution are talking about economic investments for mental health (a crucial area for a full recovery of the society), specific funds are needed in mental health professionals (eg, psychologists), skills, and innovation of locations and technology, such as the conversion of psychiatric wards to community services that carefully must consider the patient experience and clinician's point of view. Some considerations on the COVID-19 experience in Italy are reported, and suggestions on future directions for public mental health service organization are hypothesized.

Future psychiatric services in Italy: lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic.

During the COVID-19 epidemic, home care and remote working showed important technological innovations, leading to review all public mental health policies. In this article, some considerations based on the Italian COVID-19 experience in order to plan post-COVID psychiatric interventions are reported.