DUB-IN has as ultimate goal to build an inclusive society, where there will be room for everyone and where everyone including PwPD, can participate. It will be done by ensuring that they have the skills to connect with others and, they use them in a certain way that provides the personal stability needed for a satisfying life in their communities. Specific objectives are: (1) To provide trainers and practitioners working with PwPD with comprehensive training solutions to address the lack of social skills of their target groups (2) To design a unique and attractive training program, based on dubbing and the real social/communication needs of PwPD, easily applicable in other MH organizations, which has the potential to improve the results of psychosocial rehabilitation at EU level. (3) To jointly design an innovative training model which provides PwPD with real actualizing opportunities in regards to their social skills and which allows them to: - Join into effective and attractive learning opportunities to improve social skills; Facilitate the transfer of the skills learnt; Connect training with real life; Increase their representation as voice actors, increasing the diversity of existing voices and reducing their invisibility.
DUB-IN project is specifically addressed to people with psychosocial disability (PwPD), suffering from severe mental health issues as schizophrenia. This group of diseases is characterized by cognitive, psychophysiological and interpersonal deficits, which make more difficult to acquire and develop new skills and which require the adaptation and accommodation of learning/training opportunities. PwPD also show a decrease in motivation, interest and pleasure, but if there is a deficit that characterizes it, it is low social functioning. Usually PwPD suffer from affective flattening indicated by unchanging and unresponsive facial/voice expression, aprosodia and diminished communication. Besides, they are difficulties at the levels of social connection (social problems resolution, initiating/maintaining/finishing conversations, express opinions, make/accept critics, etc.). That puts them in a high risk of social exclusion. DUB-IN is an improved way to deliver social skills training in terms of effectiveness and applicability, but also provides trainers, practitioners, researchers and designers with new prospers and approaches to address the emergency of improving social functioning of PwPD that service provider can try instead.