PSYC 3690 Chapter Notes -Vocational Rehabilitation, Deinstitutionalisation, Mental Health Professional
15 Apr 2013
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Aftercare - after hospitalization, a continuing program of treatment and rehabilitation designed to reinforce the effects of therapy and to help patients adjust to their environment. Board-and-care home - a congregate living facility in the community for persons with mental illness, provides room, board, minimal staff supervision and sometimes medication. Deinstitutionalization - the mass exodus of mentally ill persons from living in hospitals to living in the community. Gravely disabled - a condition in which a person, as a result of a mental disorder, is unable to provide for his or her basic personal needs for food, clothing, or shelter. Institutes for mental disease - community facilities that are usually, but not always locked. They provide 24 hour structured care, close medication supervision and at least. 27 hours per week of therapeutic activity for every resident. Institutionalism - a syndrome characterized by lack of initiative, apathy, withdrawal, submissiveness to authority, and excessive dependence on the institution.
