Guides to Psychiatric Rehabilitation: A Co-Operative Programme with a State Mental Hospital
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Altro Health and Rehabilitation Services is a voluntary organisation which foriflel undertook rehabilitation for the physically disabled in New York. Now they are provi^ similar services for mentally ill patients in Rockland State Hospital. Only a small tean1 workers was available for this 6,000 bed mental hospital, which had recently begu1^ modify its custodial practices and was short of medical staff. Thus it is no criticism o' value of this scheme that it dealt principally with patients on admissions wards, who h3' good rehabilitation prognosis. ..
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