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Token Economy Research at St. Crispins Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Peter Elliott
Peter Elliott
Affiliation:
Area Clinical Psychology Department, St. Crispin Hospital, Duston, Northampton
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We have been engaged in running token economies at St. Crispin Hospital for four years; the initial impetus coming from a Research Grant from Oxford Regional Health Authority at the instigation of the Principal Psychologist here. The patient group we have concentrated on, is the severely chronic long stay male, averaging 25 to 30 years in the institution. In consequence, the goals of such schemes have so far been towards rehabilitation within the institution, by increasing the level of activities of chronically withdrawn patients and by restoring some of the most personal responsibilities for themselves, through the use of structured activities.

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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , July 1978 , pp. 76 - 77
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1978

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Elliott, P. A. (1977). The effects of holidays on a token economy regime. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 130, 481–483.Google Scholar
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