| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 234 pages) : illustrations |
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1 online resource (DcWaAPA) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-209). |
| Summary |
"Inasmuch as this book is built around the design and results of one of the few controlled research evaluations of psychotherapeutic programs, it is primarily offered as a contribution to the body of scientific knowledge in the field. To those clinical researchers who are concerned with the challenging problem of assessing psychotherapeutic programs of whatever type, it will hopefully be of methodological interest. It is also written for the information and guidance of psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, occupational and recreational therapists and other professional personnel in the mental health field who are associated with day treatment centers or are considering their establishment, and for those with responsibility for long range program planning. It is meant, as well, for those who have a more general interest in the community adjustment problems of schizophrenic patients, methods and techniques of bringing about behavioral change, and the appraisal of their effectiveness"--Preface. |
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"The main purpose of this book is to report the findings of a three-year controlled evaluation study of the Day Treatment Center of the Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic, Brooklyn, N.Y. This is one of the oldest and most well established of such units in the country. For the evaluation to be meaningful to the reader, it was thought desirable, first of all, to place the day treatment center within its broader historical and contemporary context, and to review some of the salient problems that confront schizophrenics in their attempt to adjust to the community. Following this, there is a formulation of the goals and objectives of the day treatment center, on the logic that the test of the success or failure of any approach is based on the degree to which it achieves its goals. To give the reader a fuller understanding of what is being evaluated, the principles underlying this particular day treatment center and the details of its organization and operation are fully described in Chapter 2. This is followed by a chapter that attempts to delineate the treatment methods and techniques that are employed, and describes how they are used to modify behavior. There is more emphasis on rationale, principles and general methods than on specific details about activities and operating minutiae"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). |
| Note |
Includes index of names and subjects. |
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Print version record. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic, Brooklyn.
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Psychiatric clinics.
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Psychiatric clinics. (OCoLC)fst01080986
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Community Mental Health Services. (DNLM)D003156
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Hospitals, Psychiatric. (DNLM)D006778
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Outpatient Clinics, Hospital. (DNLM)D010044
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Schizophrenia -- therapy.
(DNLM)D012559Q000628
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| Added Author |
Blumenthal, Richard L., author.
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| In: |
PsycBOOKS (EBSCO) EBSCO |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Meltzoff, Julian. Day treatment center. Springfield, Ill., C.C. Thomas [1966] |
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