Psychiatric Services
- Volume 27
- Number 2
- February 1976
Article
Publication date: 01 February 1976
Pages89–92The 1973 federal court ruling in Souder v. Brennan required that patient workers in institutions for the mentally ill and mentally retarded be paid in accordance with the minimum wage and other provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The author ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.2.89Publication date: 01 February 1976
Pages98–101Mental hospitals with large numbers ofinactive chronic patients often have a history of hospitalfarms and shops that provided meaningful, though unpaid, occupation to hundreds of patients. The reforms of work programs brought about by the Souder v. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.2.98Publication date: 01 February 1976
Pages112–116In making his case for a flexible, long-term sheltered workshop, the author presents seven propositions that he supports with reviews of outcome studies in psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation. He submits that it is unrealistic to expect a lasting ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.2.112Publication date: 01 February 1976
Pages116–120Little is known about patients who chronically express work problems through medical complaints or who develop or exaggerate physical problems to avoid work, the authors say. In 1 973 a university-affiliated medical clinic set up a multidisciplinary work ...
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