Word: case-aid
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Growing numbers of volunteers have become interested in concentrating their efforts on one patient, and have joined the "case-aid" aspect of the PBH program. Here each student is assigned one patient, who is considered near enough to recovery to have a chance of leaving the hospital. The volunteers meet frequently with professional psychiatrists, members of the hospital staff, and other "case-aid" students to discuss the progress of their work, and they study carefully the records of their patient's illness. But the difference between the ward and "case-aid" programs is more a difference in goals than...
Terry Murphy '63, Chairman of the Mental Health Committee, is working with a "case-aid" patient who has been in the hospital since 1943, long enough to forget what it is like outside. She has become so dependent on the ward, Murphy said, that it is extraordinarily difficult to teach her to stand on her own feet again...
Success in case-aid work depends on the individual's ability to form a close personal friendship with his patient, which is much different from the one-way relationship between a patient and doctor. So far, the results have been partly encouraging; one out of last year's 30 case-aid patients left the hospital for good...