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Learning to live in a therapeutic community: a study of elderly inpatients.

Publication ,  Journal Article
Smyer, MA; Siegler, IC
Published in: Int J Aging Hum Dev
1976

Fifty-two elderly mental patients in a state hospital were transferred to a new milieu ward. In order to evaluate patient success in the unit, three outcome categories were defined nine months after the unit opened: discharge to the community, adjustment to the setting, and return to the previous ward. Despite the unit's emphasis on performance criteria for success, staff evaluations of the patients' personality rather than the patients' achievement of the behavioural criteria, accounted for success in the setting.

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Int J Aging Hum Dev

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ISSN

0091-4150

Publication Date

1976

Volume

7

Issue

3

Start / End Page

231 / 235

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Therapeutic Community
  • Social Adjustment
  • Personality
  • Middle Aged
  • Mental Disorders
  • Humans
  • Gerontology
  • Aged
  • Achievement
  • 5205 Social and personality psychology
 

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Smyer, M. A., & Siegler, I. C. (1976). Learning to live in a therapeutic community: a study of elderly inpatients. Int J Aging Hum Dev, 7(3), 231–235. https://doi.org/10.2190/HFYD-YE6P-YBLM-UH4H
Smyer, M. A., and I. C. Siegler. “Learning to live in a therapeutic community: a study of elderly inpatients.Int J Aging Hum Dev 7, no. 3 (1976): 231–35. https://doi.org/10.2190/HFYD-YE6P-YBLM-UH4H.
Smyer MA, Siegler IC. Learning to live in a therapeutic community: a study of elderly inpatients. Int J Aging Hum Dev. 1976;7(3):231–5.
Smyer, M. A., and I. C. Siegler. “Learning to live in a therapeutic community: a study of elderly inpatients.Int J Aging Hum Dev, vol. 7, no. 3, 1976, pp. 231–35. Pubmed, doi:10.2190/HFYD-YE6P-YBLM-UH4H.
Smyer MA, Siegler IC. Learning to live in a therapeutic community: a study of elderly inpatients. Int J Aging Hum Dev. 1976;7(3):231–235.

Published In

Int J Aging Hum Dev

DOI

ISSN

0091-4150

Publication Date

1976

Volume

7

Issue

3

Start / End Page

231 / 235

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Therapeutic Community
  • Social Adjustment
  • Personality
  • Middle Aged
  • Mental Disorders
  • Humans
  • Gerontology
  • Aged
  • Achievement
  • 5205 Social and personality psychology