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Silmu course

The Silmu course is suitable for you, if

  • you are over 18
  • you are working, returning to work, studying or receiving rehabilitation subsidy
  • you have been diagnosed with mild or moderate depression, or with an anxiety or bipolar disorder
  • you have a mental health disorder that weakens your ability to work, study or function.

The Silmu course is not suitable for you, if you have a severe mental health disorder, for example severe depression, severe mental health symptoms or an untreated drinking problem or some other substance abuse problem.

The course is also available in Swedish.

Use the course search to look up when courses are arranged

Use the search term ”Silmu-kurssi”.

Rehabilitation course search (in Finnish and Swedish only)

Purpose of the course

The aim of the course is to provide support and guidance and to help you cope in everyday life. The course aims to increase your resources and skills so that you are able to participate in a variety of activities in your own living environment.

Content of the course and implementation

The rehabilitation is implemented as group rehabilitation taking each client’s individual goal and need for rehabilitation into consideration.

The course includes group discussions and working in small groups, a variety of activities as well as individual interviews, meetings and discussions with rehabilitation experts.

The rehabilitation is partly arranged on the service provider’s premises and partly in the form of telerehabilitation. If necessary, the service provider will lend you the device needed for you to be able to participate in telerehabilitation.

The part of the course that is arranged on the service provider’s premises lasts 10 days, and it is divided into 5-day periods. You can stay overnight at the place of the rehabilitation or travel there from home each day.

The telerehabilitation part of the course is implemented over a period of 8 weeks during the times between the group rehabilitation periods.  The telerehabilitation consists of

  • online rehabilitation at a time suitable to you
  • guidance for participation in online rehabilition
  • 3 individual videoconferencing sessions

A videoconferencing session lasts 45 minutes on average.

The service provider contacts you before and after the rehabilitation.

Course personnel

The course is implemented by the following experts:

  • specialist in psychiatry, general practice or occupational health
  • psychologist
  • physiotherapist or exercise instructor
  • social worker, Bachelor of Social Sciences or rehabilitation instructor. 

Depending on your individual needs, other rehabilitation professionals may also take part.

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