AbstractsSocial Work
Social reception cases in a psychiatric hospital.
| Institution: | McGill University |
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| Department: | School of Social Work. |
| Degree: | Master of Social Work. |
| Year: | 1951 |
| Keywords: | Social Work. |
| Record ID: | 1557171 |
| Full text PDF: | http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile118864.pdf |
Abstract
This study at the Allan Memorial Institute of Psychiatry was undertaken to find out what had been accomplished with those cases in which social reception had taken place. Social reception is the process of helping the patient to accept his hospitalization, of relieving his fears and threats to his status in the community, of allowing him to respond to the therapeutic potentialities of living experienced under psychiatric supervision and direction. [...]
