A therapeutic community for chronic mental patients.

Autor: Turner HB
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Health & social work [Health Soc Work] 1976 Aug; Vol. 1 (3), pp. 96-112.
DOI: 10.1093/hsw/1.3.96
Abstrakt: When the number of state mental hospitals in California was sharply reduced, San Diego County organized a therapeutic community for the treatment of acting-out chronic mental patients. The program represents the constructive use of group pressure to instill adaptive behavior patterns and to imporve ego functioning.
Databáze: MEDLINE