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...volunteer, the ward program is as much an educational experience as it is a humanitarian effort, and he will learn more if he plans his own activities in the ward and finds his own best method of communicating with patients, without too much professional advice. Volunteers have occasional group discussions with psychologists and members of the hospital staff, but they are not junior theraputists, and in most cases do not even look at patients' illness records. They concentrate on bringing fresh ideas to patients who are accustomed to an impersonal machine that merely gives them pills and locks them...
...students, these psychologists are engaged in a research project to find out how effective volunteer work really is, and to stimulate mental hospital work in other parts of the country. Supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, they are comparing data collected in two wards--a controlled ward and a ward with volunteers...
...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 in methods. "Case-aid" volunteers have a specific objects in mind: to get their patients out of the hospitals and help them to stay...
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...
...wife, but in private must be as chaste as brother and sister. The true story of one couple's struggle to achieve this relationship is poignantly told in a new book, Whom God Hath Not Joined, by a young woman under the pen name of Claire McAuley (Sheed & Ward...