Health SA Gesondheid: Journal of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences (Nov 2004)

The psychiatric outpatient's family as a support system

  • Emmerentia du Plessis,
  • M Greeff,
  • M P Koen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4102/hsag.v9i2.160
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 2

Abstract

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During 1998 the discharge of as many as possible psychiatric patients from long-term psychiatric hospitals in the North-West Province, in other words deinstitutionalisation, were planned (Roos, 1998). Opsomming Gedurende 1998 is die ontslag van so veel moontlik psigiatriese pasiënte van langtermyn-psigiatriese hospitale in die Noordwes-Provinsie, met ander woorde deïnstitusionalisering, beplan (Roos, 1998). *Please note: This is a reduced version of the abstract. Please refer to PDF for full text.