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Treatment of the chronic mental patient: issues and implications
The aim of this study is to clarify the unique needs of the chronic mental patient, and draw implications therefrom for the design of comprehensive and effective systems of continuous care. The history of treatment for mental patients in the western industrialized world is reviewed, with special emp...
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| author | O'Dea, Patricia Ann Margaret |
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| description | The aim of this study is to clarify the unique needs of the chronic mental patient, and draw implications therefrom for the design of comprehensive and effective systems of continuous care. The history of treatment for mental patients in the western industrialized world is reviewed, with special emphasis on the ethical, legal and socio-cultural background to the deinstitutionalization movement, and the development of new models of caring for the chronic mental patient. Recent attempts to humanize mental health care are examined for guidelines to more successful planning in the future. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/17620 Treatment of the chronic mental patient: issues and implications O'Dea, Patricia Ann Margaret Oxtoby, Richard Clinical Psychology The aim of this study is to clarify the unique needs of the chronic mental patient, and draw implications therefrom for the design of comprehensive and effective systems of continuous care. The history of treatment for mental patients in the western industrialized world is reviewed, with special emphasis on the ethical, legal and socio-cultural background to the deinstitutionalization movement, and the development of new models of caring for the chronic mental patient. Recent attempts to humanize mental health care are examined for guidelines to more successful planning in the future. 2016-03-10T06:56:07Z 2016-03-10T06:56:07Z 1986 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17620 eng application/pdf Department of Psychology Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Clinical Psychology O'Dea, Patricia Ann Margaret Treatment of the chronic mental patient: issues and implications |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Treatment of the chronic mental patient: issues and implications |
| title_full | Treatment of the chronic mental patient: issues and implications |
| title_fullStr | Treatment of the chronic mental patient: issues and implications |
| title_full_unstemmed | Treatment of the chronic mental patient: issues and implications |
| title_short | Treatment of the chronic mental patient: issues and implications |
| title_sort | treatment of the chronic mental patient issues and implications |
| topic | Clinical Psychology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17620 |
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