The Psychosocial Rehabilitation Lab was approved by the scientific council of FPCE-UP and ESTS-IPP at December 2008. This laboratory is located in Porto, Portugal and it belongs to the Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde - Instituto Politécnico do Porto and to the Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação - Universidade do Porto. It’s a lab dedicated to intervention, research, continuing education and to the promotion of functioning, social insertion and quality of life of people with psychiatric disabilities or in other situations of social segregation.
Allan Bellack, Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Maryland, EUA, has a broad research about Schizophrenia and Social Skills Training. He is the external evaluator of LabRP.
Sara de Sousa shows the conclusions related to a study named "Stigma in Families of People with Schizophrenia" developed in Hospital de São João, Porto.