title: [A district psychiatric clinic and therapeutic pedagogic facility--development of a management concept for mentally handicapped patients].
abstract: There is a general consensus of opinion that adult mentally handicapped persons--if we leave aside the treatment of severe and psychiatrically relevant concomitant diseases or abnormal behaviour--are misfits in a psychiatric hospital. The aim of an independent care of the mentally handicapped can be achieved in different ways based on medical paedagogy. The Home for Medical Paedagogy in Düren, Lower Rhine District, is a case in point. Despite many difficulties and conflicts this hospital attained an outstanding standard of medical care within just ten years. Its location is on the same site as that of the psychiatric hospital.
authors.affiliation: Rheinische Landesklinik, Düren.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Koester
mesh_terms: D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities / Q000639:trends*; D005860:Germany, West; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000639:trends; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000639:trends
vernacular_title: Psychiatrische Landesklinik und Heilpädagogisches Heim--Entwicklung eines Versorgungskonzeptes für geistig Behinderte.