Physical activity provides physical, psychological, and social benefits for people with mental health problems. It can increase self-esteem, reduce stress, depression, and anxiety, and help prevent cognitive decline and diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Regular exercise aims to improve quality of life by promoting rehabilitation, reintegration into society, and fostering cognitive, motor, emotional and social skills. It seeks to reduce disabling effects of mental disorders, aid in weight control, and improve cardiovascular health and life expectancy. Methodological considerations for physical activity programs include focusing guidance on individual patients, avoiding infantilism, providing simple and repetitive instructions, and using short learning periods.

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PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR PEOPLE WITH
MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS

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1. PHYSICAL ACTIVITY BENEFITS
 PHYSICAL BENEFITS
 PSYCHOLOGICAL BENEFITS
 SOCIAL BENEFITS

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2. PSYCHOLOGICAL BENEFITS
 Increase self-steem
 Stress Reduction
 Reduction Depression
 Reducing Anxiety state
 Alzheimer prevention
 Parkinson prevention
 Better cognitive function (specially in
elderly)

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3. GENERAL OBJECTIVE
 “Improve the quality of life of patients by
promoting their rehabilitation and reintegration
into society, awakening and fostering their
cognitive, motor, emotional and social skills,
fostering communication and expression” (Ríos,
2009).

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3. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
 Reduce and offset the disabling effects (physical,
psychological and social) including severe mental
disorder.
 Lose or control weight
 Improve cardiovascular health, increasint life
expectancy
 Develop functional autonomy

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4. METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS
 When demos custom slogans, look at the patient that we
went specifically to focus.
 Do not fall into infantilism.
 Concrete, precise, organized and simplified information.
 The instructions shall be simple and with frequent
repetitions that will facilitate subsequent transfer to other
situations..

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4. METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS
 Never take anything for granted.
 The information should reach the greatest possible
number of ways. Closed questions.
 Demonstration and imitation model. Also touch
support.
 Short periods of learning, because learning processes
are very slow.