PSYCHOSOCIAL ISSUES IN REHABILITATION: BRINGING THE UNCONSCIOUS TO CONSCIOUSNESS

In the previous editorial of OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health, Matuska (2012) found that social support was embedded in the text of many articles as a subtheme in that publication. Having had her own family experience with the contribution of social support to positive rehabilitation outcomes, she decided to extract and expand on this theme within the diverse topics covered in that issue. I was inspired by her creative exploration of this subtheme, so decided to do the same for mental health. Psychosocial issues are important to rehabilita-tion. The body and mind are tightly coupled (Gard-ner, Dong-Olson, Castronovo, Hess, & Lawless, 2012). One of the strongest predictors of physical health is mental health (Hager & Runtz, 2012). More than half of visits to general practitioner physicians involved mental health issues (Wickramasekera e