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4. Request to the relative body of an evaluation of this case. The teams of Grass-roots Social<br />

Services Centres will receive the demand. The competence evaluation team of each autonomous<br />

community will issue the relative judgement and the disablement condition of the person will be<br />

temporarily or def<strong>in</strong>itely recognised.<br />

By virtue of this recognition, the person affected by the SMI may benefit from other social<br />

coverage systems:<br />

– If the percentage is higher than 33% disablement, the condition will be recognised and<br />

the person affected may make use of tax-related advantages.<br />

– If the percentage is higher than 33% disablement, the condition will be recognised and If<br />

their disablement condition exceeds 65% and the person affected has not contributed <strong>for</strong><br />

sufficient time so as to have a contributory benefit, he or she may have a non-contributory<br />

type economic <strong>in</strong>come, set by each autonomous community.<br />

The framework of reference of Spanish Law 39/2006, 14 December, on the Promotion of<br />

personal autonomy and care <strong>for</strong> dependent persons, recognises, among its pr<strong>in</strong>ciples, the universality<br />

<strong>in</strong> the access of all dependent people, <strong>in</strong> conditions of effective equality and non-discrim<strong>in</strong>ation.<br />

It also recognises <strong>in</strong> the actual def<strong>in</strong>ition of the dependency situation, the specific characteristics<br />

of the people who belong to the group of people affected by a mental illness, <strong>in</strong>dicat<strong>in</strong>g<br />

that dependency is a “permanent state of people, who, due to reasons derived from age, illness or<br />

disability, and l<strong>in</strong>ked to the lack or loss of physical, mental, <strong>in</strong>tellectual or sensorial autonomy,<br />

require the care of another or of other people or considerable help to per<strong>for</strong>m basic activities of<br />

daily liv<strong>in</strong>g or, <strong>in</strong> the case of people with <strong>in</strong>tellectual disability or mental illness, other supports<br />

<strong>for</strong> their personal autonomy”. The evaluation and access to these benefits is regulated by each<br />

Autonomous Community.<br />

(http://www.segsocial.es/Internet_1/LaSeguridadSocial/Quienessomos/InstitutoNacionalde29413/<strong>in</strong>dex.htm)<br />

Functions of the social services professionals<br />

Some competences that are attributed to social services professionals and that act as coord<strong>in</strong>ation<br />

with the health spaces would be:<br />

• Carry out evaluation tasks and social <strong>in</strong>tervention with the referred users and their families.<br />

• Coord<strong>in</strong>ate with the different resources of the social-health network (General Social<br />

Services, tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g, labour mechanisms, etc.).<br />

• Attend and <strong>for</strong>m part of the Rehabilitation Commission of the area of reference if there<br />

are any.<br />

• Participate <strong>in</strong> the task<strong>for</strong>ces of each one of the spaces def<strong>in</strong>ed. Carry out the assessment<br />

of the families, with<strong>in</strong> the assessment protocol of each mechanism.<br />

• Carry out the follow-ups of the assigned users.<br />

• In<strong>for</strong>m and counsel users on resources, especially those that represent greater normalisation<br />

and <strong>in</strong>tegration: tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g, labour, educational, leisure…<br />

• Detect new resources and be responsible <strong>for</strong> compil<strong>in</strong>g already exist<strong>in</strong>g resources.<br />

• Coord<strong>in</strong>ate with the Associations of Families and Users of the Areas of reference of the<br />

Rehabilitation Centre, as well as with other types of people’s participation associations.<br />

CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR PSICHOSOCIAL INTERVENTIONS IN SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS 129

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