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A study of the measurement of changes occurring in long-term psychiatric patients discharged to residential care in the community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Adrian E. G. Skinner  and
Christine M. Williams
Adrian E. G. Skinner
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Psychology and Department of Psychiatry, Harrogate Health Authority, Norman House, 46 East Parade, Harrogate HG1 5LT
Christine M. Williams
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Psychology and Department of Psychiatry, Harrogate Health Authority, Norman House, 46 East Parade, Harrogate HG1 5LT
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As more health authorities close large psychiatric hospitals the provision of small local facilities in which former residents of such hospitals are housed is increasing. Such houses tend to share many common characteristics dictated both by practical necessity and by deliberate policy – they tend to be large Victorian houses chosen because they have a larger number of bedrooms and they tend to be run in a much less formal manner than hospital wards (Goldberg, 1985).

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 6 , June 1991 , pp. 331 - 333
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991

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