Social and work rehabilitation of schizophrenics under the shop conditions of an industrial enterprise
Arzamastsev, I.N.
Zhurnal Nevropatologii i Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova 79(5): 617-623
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-4588 PMID: 156482 Document Number: 154121
The paper is concerned with the results and effectivity of rehabilitation of 219 schizophrenic patients with unfavourable variants of development, who worked for 1--3 years in shops of an enterprise, intended for promoting the rehabilitative treatment and employment of mental patients. with the use of special rating scales, the efficacy of rehabilitation attained in therapeutic-occupational shops (TOS) and in industrial shops. The study demonstrated that the results of rehabilitation in conditions of a shop are significantly higher than the corresponding indices in conditions of TOS.