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The comprehensive rehabilitation center: Its role and realm in psychiatric rehabilitation

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This paper describes a complex pattern of rehabilitation center services designed to facilitate the transition of the ex-mental patient from the hospital to the community. Emphasis is placed on the importance of work and work adjustment as therapeutic instrumentalities, and on the kinds of ex-mental patients that require and benefit from vocationally-oriented, comprehensive rehabilitation programs. Some underlying principles of a model program are discussed, together with ways of implementing these principles.

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  1. Institute for the Crippled and Disabled, USA

    Myron Koltuv Ph.D. (Director of Research, Research Director)

  2. Soundview-Throgs Neck Community Mental Health Center, USA

    Myron Koltuv Ph.D. (Director of Research, Research Director)

  3. New York University, USA

    Walter S. Neff Ph.D. (Professor of Psychology)

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Koltuv, M., Neff, W.S. The comprehensive rehabilitation center: Its role and realm in psychiatric rehabilitation. Community Ment Health J 4, 251–259 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01879125

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