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The Schizophrenic Rehabilitee

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Neville L. Gittleson*
Affiliation:
Middlewood Hospital, Sheffield

Extract

It has been shown (Wing and Giddens 1959, Wing 1960) that schizophrenics may benefit from a course at a Ministry of Labour Industrial Rehabilitation Unit. Psychiatric cases make “special demands on the staff time” (Ministry of Labour Gazette 1962) and if they comprise too high a proportion, may alter the atmosphere of the Unit from “industrial” to “hospital”. There follows a need for limitation by selection of such cases. Selection procedures however have not been fully worked out (Wing 1960).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1966 

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