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Can we rehabilitate everyone?

Heywood rehabilitation ward for the most severely disabled psychiatric patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Tim Atkin ,
Philip Meats  and
Caroline Sincock
Tim Atkin
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, Prestwich Hospital
Philip Meats
Affiliation:
King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield NG17 4JL
Caroline Sincock
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, Prestwich Hospital, Bury New Road, Manchester M25 7BL
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There is an increasing momentum for the provision of care for people with chronic mental illness to be made in settings other than mental hospitals. One concern arising from this shift in emphasis is with those patients who may find it particularly difficult to live in the community.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , January 1991 , pp. 10 - 12
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