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- Title
The Characteristics of Patients with Intellectual Disabilities Held in Forensic Asylums in Norway: 1915-1987.
- Authors
Søndenaa, Erik; Gudde, Camilla; Thomassen, Øyvind
- Abstract
A significant number of patients with intellectual disability (ID) were admitted to forensic mental health asylums during the period 1915-1987. Many of these patients stayed for more than a decade, because of previous offending behaviour. We investigated the daily lives of 262 patients with an ID using casebooks. Two of the patients were studied more in detail. The available documents describe most of these patients as sociable, well-behaved and socially engaged although they missed having contacts outside the hospital. Long-stay patients were studied more in detail.
- Subjects
NORWAY; MENTAL institutions; PATIENTS; CARE of people; PEOPLE with mental illness; LENGTH of stay in psychiatric hospitals; MENTAL health of people with intellectual disabilities; SOCIABILITY; HUMAN behavior research; HISTORY of Norway; LENGTH of stay in hospitals; INTERPERSONAL relations; MENTAL health; PEOPLE with intellectual disabilities; PSYCHIATRIC hospitals; SOCIAL skills; ACTIVITIES of daily living; CRIMINALS with mental illness; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2018, Vol 20, Issue 1, p131
- ISSN
1501-7419
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.16993/sjdr.1