An evaluation of redirection through education: a psychosocial rehabilitation program for young adults with psychiatric disability.

Both current (N=77) and former (N=46) Redirection Through Education Program (RTE) students completed measures on self-esteem, social adjustment, symptomatology, and satisfaction with life domains. Current students responded during the first, eleventh, and twentieth weeks of the program (N=26). The results showed significant increases in self-esteem and social adjustment, and decreases in reported symptomatology for current students as they progressed through the program. Former RTE students demonstrated significantly higher levels of self-esteem, higher levels of functioning, and more satisfaction with life domains, as well as less symptomatology at follow-up, as compared to the total group of students upon entry to RTE. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]