Care of institutionalized mentally disabled persons
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on the Handicapped
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on the Handicapped
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on the Handicapped
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 698
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on the Handicapped
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: George W. Fairweather
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published:
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 020236495X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Pauline Morris
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780415178075
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Gerald N. Grob
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published:
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 1412828511
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 examines how American society responded to complex problems arising out of mental illness in the nineteenth century. All societies have had to confront sickness, disease, and dependency, and have developed their own ways of dealing with these phenomena. The mental hospital became the characteristic institution charged with the responsibility of providing care and treatment for individuals seemingly incapable of caring for themselves during protracted periods of incapacitation. The services rendered by the hospital were of benefit not merely to the afflicted individual but to the community. Such an institution embodied a series of moral imperatives by providing humane and scientific treatment of disabled individuals, many of whose families were unable to care for them at home or to pay the high costs of private institutional care. Yet the mental hospital has always been more than simply an institution that offered care and treatment for the sick and disabled. Its structure and functions have usually been linked with a variety of external economic, political, social, and intellectual forces, if only because the way in which a society handled problems of disease and dependency was partly governed by its social structure and values. The definition of disease, the criteria for institutionalization, the financial and administrative structures governing hospitals, the nature of the decision-making process, differential care and treatment of various socio-economic groups were issues that transcended strictly medical and scientific considerations. Mental Institutions in America attempts to interpret the mental hospital as a social as well as a medical institution and to illuminate the evolution of policy toward dependent groups such as the mentally ill. This classic text brilliantly studies the past in depth and on its own terms.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on the Handicapped
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 700
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Pauline Morris
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-12
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1351495305
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This classic book allows its readers for the first time to comprehend the size, organization, staffing and operation of a national system of hospitals and residential services for the subnormal. It also allows for the first time, reliable estimates to be given of the scale and severity of certain problems. The basis has been laid for an evaluation of the effectiveness of hospitals for the subnormal. All this has been made possible by a generous grant from the National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children to the Department of Sociology in the University of Essex upon the foundation of the University. Of course, a great deal of further research remains to be done but a preliminary network of information is now available to all those deeply concerned about the handicapped. This is a study of the range and quality of institutional provisions made in England and Wales for that group of handicapped individuals who are known as mentally deficient. Dr. Morris reports on an investigation, which covered nearly half the hospitals for the sub-normal in the country: many of its findings can only shock and dismay. The investigation was concerned to discover what facilities-physical, occupational and educational-there was for patients, and to learn more about their social environment. It was also concerned to determine the extent to which both staff and patients are affected by their social environment, and by administrative action, and to learn something of the relationship between the hospital as an institution and the outside community, as well as between the patients and the outside world. In addition, it examined the extent to which the provisions and facilities available met the needs of the patients in relation to their physical and mental handicaps.
Author: Roy D. King
Publisher: London : Routledge and K. Paul
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 286
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