Psychiatric Patients' Adjustment to the Community: A Case Study of the Present Social Functioning of Six Schizophrenic Women Discharged as Improved From Jacob L. Reiss Mental Health Pavillion, the St. Vincent's Hospital of the City of New York, February, 1956- August, 1957
Abstract
Background of the Study. The great extent of mental illness in the United States has become a matter of common knowledge and concern in the years since World War II. Great strides have been made in the education of the public toward understanding of mental illness, and in the development of mental hygiene programs for prevention and research in diagnosis and treatment. The mass media of communication, radio, television, motion pictures, newspapers, advertising resources, have all been utilized to point up the extent of this, the greatest public health problem in the United States today, a disease group which accounts for over one-half of the hospital beds in the country. Increasingly, greater investments of public and private funds have been devoted to work in this area.
Subject Area
Womens studies|Mental health|Social work|Mass communications
Recommended Citation
Miller, Shirley May, "Psychiatric Patients' Adjustment to the Community: A Case Study of the Present Social Functioning of Six Schizophrenic Women Discharged as Improved From Jacob L. Reiss Mental Health Pavillion, the St. Vincent's Hospital of the City of New York, February, 1956- August, 1957" (1959). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30557714.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30557714
