Intellectual Assessment of Young Adult Chronic Patients

Barbara Feitel and Mary SanoAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: Psychiatric Services

Volume 34, Number 12

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.12.1153

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At Rockland Psychiatric Center 60 newly admitted (and readmitted) young adult chronic patients were given tests of intellectual functioning and academic achievement three weeks after admission. The majority of these patients (83 percent) had belownormal IQs and more than half were found to be functionally illiterate. The authors point out that such patients require intensive socialization training and remedial education if they are to survive in the community.

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Psychiatric Services

Volume 34 • Number 12 • December 1983

Pages: 1153 - 1155

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Published in print: December 1983

Published online: 1 April 2006

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Barbara Feitel

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Mary Sano

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Nathan S. Kline Institute, Orangeburg, New York 10962

University of New York

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Intellectual Assessment of Young Adult Chronic Patients

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