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Helping the Chronic Psychiatric Patient in an Industrial Therapy Setting

An Experiment in Inter-Disciplinary Co-operation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Anne H. Pattie ,
Anne E. Williams  and
David Emery
Anne H. Pattie
Affiliation:
Clifton Hospital, York
Anne E. Williams
Affiliation:
Liverpool Social Services Department; Clifton Hospital, York
David Emery
Affiliation:
Clifton Hospital, York
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The original aim of Industrial Therapy Units, which exist in most psychiatric hospitals, was to preserve or re-establish outside interests and standards by providing work of an industrial nature (Wadsworth, 1962), but often they merely offer the patient activity and occupation. The staff of the Industrial Therapy Unit at Clifton Hospital were concerned about some patients who benefited very little from attendance, and they devised a project to improve this. Qualitatively the patients appeared to benefit but the staff were unable to measure this. They therefore approached the Psychology Department, and a structured programme was designed with emphasis on measurement and control of variables. There was very little to be found in the literature on experiments in an Industrial Therapy setting (see references).

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 126 , Issue 1 , January 1975 , pp. 30 - 33
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1975 

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