Local Associations and Rehabilitation by

Edith

Morgan,

problems resulting T?E P^hiatric illness

Local Associations from

many and t0 Pr?grammes of local associations 0? Overcome them cover a wide range Their contribution to feL Citation is diverse and only a few aspects of their work can bp here. because sufficient credit can he given for it, I must mention are

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^cheated theer ^.^spectacular ena^^es nevlrst>

neighbourly support many people to contend Mth *he of their live whenstrains and stresses otherwise they would need ,P?al care. Many local association

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rs on year in and year out Warmth and friendship to those tek Ph?ne them, heing available on the when loneliness becomes a bUd e> and helping with shopping, and all the small details of ljfe can become major problems t0 Pefson recovering from a Psv ychiatric illness.

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ting. With the advice and co-operation of professionally qualified workers local associations have set up many such clubs and are providing a most useful service. A few local associations, again with professional guidance, have undertaken the ambitious task of running rehabilitation hostels themselves. They have shown admirable energy and determination in raising large sums of money to buy and equip houses, and in carrying on the continuously demanding work of running hostels. Since these hostels do not have to fit into a rigid framework, associations can be flexible in their arrangements and are much used by the statutory health authorities. Industrial therapy is a coming thing and at least one Industrial Therapy Organisation has been built up by a local association. The problems of finding work after

psychiatric hospital are well local associations, by relations with developing good employers and trade unions in their area, are doing much to help with job finding.

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and practical services Rational educational

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work of local is bound up with itationorganising of PUbr meetings and study courses req work hut 'ires much energy and hard make associations steadily the knowing that if only a few dices are replaced each time by t^g fr tacts, there will be less opposition the lext anxi?us or hostile residents time a rehabilitation hostel or s0rn s^milar unit is proposed in their Waruty. A successful educational prQ also makes both sick and their families more ready to advice at an early stage of illtig ^Us increasin8 the chances of and effective treatment. associations also play their actual services for Proyiding rehaKv valu ? of tion. We now know the social clubs which provide a frje welcome for recovering Pati W^? ^or a time need opporles to make social contacts in an erstanding and sympathetic set-

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Essential requirements A home, a job, a friend

are essential for a satisfactory life. in our society lack one or more of these fundamentals and some, after illness, lack all three. Rehabilitation cannot be effective unless these needs are met and it is in this direction that local associations? those groups of people who care enough about their neighbours to share their burdens?are want to making what is perhaps their biggest

requirements Many people

social impact.

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