The authors describe an educational process in which those who work in the psychiatric hospital can learn from their daily experiences on their wards, rather than from teachers expounding their predetermined syllabus. They offer some ideas about how to put autonomous learning into practice, and develop techniques of involvement which ...
This document considers that the role of volunteers working in psychiatric hospitals is essentially to add a dimension of reality to the lives of the patients and, by so doing, to help them maintain, develop and strengthen their links with the community. A variety of voluntary services that are being ...
In the first half-century of its work, the King's Fund was concerned with the support, benefit and extension of the voluntary hospitals of London, and therefore had little or no contact with mental and mental deficiency hospitals. When the National Health Service Act was implemented in 1948, the need for ...