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Activity Programmes and Chronic Schizophrenia: A Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. P. N. Phillips*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The University, Hull

Extract

Hamilton and Salmon (1962) and Hamilton (1964) have investigated the effect upon male chronic schizophrenics, inter alios, of the following regimes: (a) working in a hospital industrial workshop, (b) occupational therapy and (c) no specific activity (the first study only). Hamilton (1964), considering both studies, concludes that the results “may be said to weight the available evidence in favour of the superiority of Workshop Therapy”. Certain points should be raised in connection with this conclusion.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1964 

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References

Hamilton, V., and Salmon, P. (1962). “Psychological changes in chronic schizophrenics following differential activity programmes.” J. Ment. Sci., 108, 505520.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hamilton, V. (1964). “Psychological changes in chronic schizophrenics following differential activity programmes: a repeat study.” Brit. J. Psychiat., 110, 283286.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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