Community Life for the Mentally Ill
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A01=David H. Sanders
A01=David L. Cressler
A01=George W. Fairweather
A01=Hugo Maynard
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Author_David H. Sanders
Author_David L. Cressler
Author_George W. Fairweather
Author_Hugo Maynard
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Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=JHB
Category=NL-JH
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Chronic
Chronic Mental Patients
Community Adjustment
Community Lodge
Community Tenure
community-based mental health program
COP=United Kingdom
crew
Crew Chief
deinstitutionalization
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Ex-mental Patient
Executive Committee
Experimental Ward
Federal Hospital
Format=BB
Format_Hardback
HMM=229
IMPN=Routledge
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ISBN13=9781138520875
Janitorial Service
Language_English
Lay Coordinators
lodge
Lodge Group
Lodge Members
Lodge Program
Lodge Site
Lodge Situation
Lodge Society
manual
marginal populations research
members
Mental Patients
PA=Available
patients
PD=20171012
POP=London
Price_€100 to €200
PS=Active
psychiatric rehabilitation
psychosocial intervention
PUB=Taylor & Francis Ltd
Research Staff
social integration strategies
Social Subsystem
Social System
society
Staff Coordinator
Subject=Sociology & Anthropology
Treatment Subsystem
urban mental health
Violating
WG=454
WMM=152
Product details
- ISBN 9781138520875
- Format: Hardback
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Oct 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: London, GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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"Community Life for the Mentally Ill" presents a social innovative experiment aimed at providing new and more participating social positions in American society for mental patients. It presents the events that occurred when a courageous group of former chronic mental patients abruptly left a hospital and established their own autonomous sub-society in a large, metropolitan area.In order to complete this experiment, the patients created a small society in the community where discharged patients could live and work. Others evaluated the effects of the newly created society upon the behavior and perceptions of its members, which is also presented here. Both the descriptive and comparative aspects of this study are presented as they occurred in real life. The book is concerned with the medical, economic, sociological, and psychological facets of these former patients' daily lives. The effects of this small society upon the neighborhood and city in which it was located, as well as its effects upon professional persons, are richly explored.Clearly defining a radical departure from standard methods for treating the mentally ill, the authors conclude that such an autonomous society can thrive in the appropriate setting; the ex-patient's chances of employment are increased and the chance of recidivism are reduced; the member's self-esteem is enhanced; treatment costs are greatly reduced; the community adjustment of all members is increased, especially among those who have been hospitalized for a long period. With new guidelines for identifying danger zones in urban settings, this becomes a critical work.
George W. Fairweather, David H. Sanders, David L. Cressler, Hugo Maynard
