title: [Rehabilitation of psychiatric patients in the halfway house--a 10-year retrospective study].
abstract: In a period of ten years 159 residents were admitted to a transitional home. 90% of them were diagnosed as chronic schizophrenics with a marked psychic and social handicap. With an average age of 28.7 years and a mean duration of illness of 6.8 years most of the patients had been hospitalized several times; 95% had no job, lived on social assistance or were invalidity pensioners. There was poor success in vocational rehabilitation (22%). Better results were seen in solving the housing problems, showing a clear-cut tendency to move from the family of origin into protected group homes or independent living. Positive effects of social training with gains in life-coping abilities and social competence, i.e., in autonomy in everyday life could be observed as well.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatrische Klinik, Kliniken Essen-Mitte.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pach
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lodemann
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000328:Adult; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003688:Deinstitutionalization; D005260:Female; D006208:Halfway Houses; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019989:Persons with Intellectual Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012917:Social Adjustment; D014829:Vocational Education