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Author Fairweather, George W

Title Community Life for the Mentally Ill : an Alternative to Institutional Care
Published Somerset : Taylor and Francis, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (369 pages)
Contents Cover; Half title; Title Page; Copyright; PREFACE; PART I. THE SOCIAL INNOVATIVE EXPERIMENT; 1 Overview of the Experiment; 2 Social Status and Mental Illness; 3 Planning and Implementing the Project; PART II. EVOLUTION OF AN AUTONOMOUS SOCIETY IN THE COMMUNITY; 4 The Era of Maximum Professional Supervision; 5 A Governing Body Emerges; 6 The Attempt at Self-Government; 7 Autonomy at Last; PART III. INTERCHANGE WITH THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY; 8 The Socioeconomic Environment of the Lodge; 9 Social Exchange with the Community; 10 Relations with the University; 11 Medical Care for the Members
PART IV. COMPARISON OF THE COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTS12 The Community Adjustment of Lodge Members; 13 The Effect of Volunteering and Chronicity on Community Adjustment; 14 The Relationship between the Social Situation and Treatment Criteria; 15 Group Processes in the Hospital and Community Social Subsystems; PART V. IMPLICATIONS FOR INNOVATIVE RESEARCH WITH THE MENTALLY ILL AND THER MARGINAL GROUPS; 16 Staff and Patient Views of Innovative Hospital and Community Treatment Programs; 17 Operating Principles for Community Treatment Subsystems
Notes 18 A Recurrent Social Problem: Changing the Social Status of Marginal ManINDEX
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Subject Mentally ill -- Rehabilitation.
Mentally ill -- Rehabilitation
Form Electronic book
Author Sanders, David H
Cressler, David L
Maynard, Hugo
Fairweather, George
ISBN 9781351527385
135152738X