Schizophrenic Veterans: A Study of the Life Histories of Four World War II Veterans With Service Connected Disabilities, From the Closed Files of the Veterans Administration Hospital, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1960
Abstract
Background of the Study. As a second year student of the Fordham University School of Social Service working toward a degree of Master of Social Service, the researcher had a field work placement at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The placement consisted of extending casework services to veterans who had been admitted to the station for various physical and/or mental disabilities and to their families.The medico-social implications of illness in general have not always been a concept readily accepted by either the medical or social sciences. Only during the past quarter century, with the development of a dynamic approach toward treating the emotionally disabled, has there arisen a degree of mutual acceptance for the other's ability to contribute to the study, diagnosis and treatment of a given patient. This concordant, while recognizing the need for independent activity to develop skills and techniques, submits to cooperative action in ministering to the total patient's needs. The new approach in psychiatric treatment is partially the result of the current view taken toward the patient with the disorder. No longer are psychoneurotic or psychotic disturbances considered the result of the disfunctioning of a single organ like the brain, but rather as a maladjustment of a single social organism.
Subject Area
Multicultural Education|Mental health|Social work
Recommended Citation
Gleason, James Francis, "Schizophrenic Veterans: A Study of the Life Histories of Four World War II Veterans With Service Connected Disabilities, From the Closed Files of the Veterans Administration Hospital, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1960" (1961). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31050574.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31050574
