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Community Life for the Mentally Ill - An Alternative to Institutional Care (Hardcover)
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Community Life for the Mentally Ill - An Alternative to Institutional Care (Hardcover)
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Total price: R4,760
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"Community Life for the Mentally Ill" presents a social innovative
experiment aimed at providing new and more participating social
positions in American society for mental patients. It presents the
events that occurred when a courageous group of former chronic
mental patients abruptly left a hospital and established their own
autonomous sub-society in a large, metropolitan area.In order to
complete this experiment, the patients created a small society in
the community where discharged patients could live and work. Others
evaluated the effects of the newly created society upon the
behavior and perceptions of its members, which is also presented
here. Both the descriptive and comparative aspects of this study
are presented as they occurred in real life. The book is concerned
with the medical, economic, sociological, and psychological facets
of these former patients' daily lives. The effects of this small
society upon the neighborhood and city in which it was located, as
well as its effects upon professional persons, are richly
explored.Clearly defining a radical departure from standard methods
for treating the mentally ill, the authors conclude that such an
autonomous society can thrive in the appropriate setting; the
ex-patient's chances of employment are increased and the chance of
recidivism are reduced; the member's self-esteem is enhanced;
treatment costs are greatly reduced; the community adjustment of
all members is increased, especially among those who have been
hospitalized for a long period. With new guidelines for identifying
danger zones in urban settings, this becomes a critical work.
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