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- Title
FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER ASYLUMS: DESCRIPTION OF A PROGRAM FOR VICTIMS OF THE TOTAL INSTITUTION.
- Authors
Cox, Sheralyn
- Abstract
Since the publication of Goffman's Asylums in 1961, major changes in the philosophy of treatment have been made within psychiatric facilities. While legislative and judicial action have done much to encourage community service provision and to protect the rights of prospective inpatients, long-term psychiatric patients have been neglected. Socialized into the lifestyle described by Goffman as the ‘total institution,’ the chronic patient lacks the skills and motivation to successfully adjust to community living. The needs of the long-term inpatient can be met through a nontraditional training model, but only if intervention is made on community, political, and staff levels as well.
- Subjects
ASYLUMS (Institutions); CHRONICALLY ill; INCURABLE disease hospitals; MENTAL disability care facilities -- Patients; PEOPLE with intellectual disabilities; INSTITUTIONAL care; INSTITUTIONALIZED persons; PSYCHOTHERAPY patients; SOCIAL worker &; client
- Publication
Clinical Social Work Journal, 1978, Vol 6, Issue 1, p44
- ISSN
0091-1674
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00760506