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PREDICTING INDUSTRIAL THERAPY SUCCESS AND HOSPITAL PROGRESS IN A SCHIZOPHRENIC POPULATION
Abstract
More hospital beds are occupied by schizophrenic patients than by patients affected by any other one illness, and the number of people hospitalized for this condition is increasing (Arieti, 1955). It is estimated that at any given time there are 290 cases per 100,000 population ill with the disease. Schizophrenics account for twenty-five per cent of all admissions to mental hospitals. The average length of hospitalization of schizophrenic patients is 13.1 years. As a result of schizophrenia's extreme chronicity, nearly half of the beds in mental hospitals are occupied by schizophrenic patients (Bellak, 1958, p. 80). According to Arieti, no other condition in human pathology has been more perplexing or challenging than the syndrome called schizophrenia. Although some writers believe that the mystery of this illness is being solved, it still constitutes the foremost theoretical and therapeutic problem in the mental health field.
Subject Area
Clinical psychology
Recommended Citation
RITCHEY, RONALD EUGENE, "PREDICTING INDUSTRIAL THERAPY SUCCESS AND HOSPITAL PROGRESS IN A SCHIZOPHRENIC POPULATION" (1963). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI6402637.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI6402637