On the Recommendation of Rehabilitative Measures for Psychiatric Patients

Abstract

An attempt is made in this study to explore the application of the concept of psychiatric rehabilitation and its component parts, as it manifested itself in the rehabilitation plans drawn up for patients (N= 104) under treatment on the adults' wards of a psychiatric clinic on a given date. With the object of exploring the lines followed in framing the rehabilitation plans, the recommendations were factored and rotated, employing the varimax technique. Five factors were interpreted, and in the interpretation those correlations were also taken into account which the factors bore both to the background variables used to describe the patients and also to the estimated obstacles to rehabilitation. All five factors were bi-polar, each of them constituting a choice between two contrasting alternatives of psychiatric rehabilitation, factor I between out-patient treatment and treatment in an institutional setting, factor 2 between drug therapy and vocational guidance, factor 3 between a work-centred alternative and club activities, recreations, etc., factor 4 between psychotherapy and social rehabilitation measures, and factor 5 between occupational therapy and industrial therapy.