Effects of mental hospital experiences on attitudes of teen-age students toward mental illness

✍ Scribed by Patricia Keith-Spiegel; Donald E. Spiegel

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1970
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 188 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(197007)26:3<387::aid-jclp2270260338>3.0.co;2-a

✦ Synopsis

The final report'') of the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health listed the following recommendation: "The volunteer work with mental hospital patients done by college students and many others should be encouraged and extended." This paper presents the implementation of a student volunteer program at a large neuropsychiatric facility and the effects of participating in such a program on student attitudea towards mental patients and the hospital.

METHOD

~d ? p ? c t s . Subjects were 30 teen-agers from a junior college taking an btroductory course in psychology which required that each student volunteer three hours a week service in a psychiatric institution.