title: Continuing day treatment programs promote recovery in schizophrenia: a case-based study.
abstract: Continuing day treatment programs focus on community stabilization through comprehensive individualized rehabilitation. They promote recovery through a variety of practical clinical therapeutic interventions. This empirically based report describes a continuing day treatment program's rehabilitation of four clients with schizophrenia, chronic type in a western New York mental health clinic who were in each of the specialty services: a two-phase program, a program for seniors, and a program for co-occurring substance dependence. Some particularly difficult psychiatric symptoms of schizophrenia were successfully treated in this continuing day treatment program. Each of these clients showed improvements in their symptoms and overall community adjustment that may well have been unobtainable with less intensive outpatient treatment.
authors.affiliation: Buffalo Psychiatric Center in Buffalo, New York, USA.
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authors.lastname: Grace
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authors.forename: Josie L
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authors.forename: Diane
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authors.lastname: Annalett
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authors.lastname: Antonelli
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authors.lastname: Baxter-Banks
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authors.lastname: Newcomer