Operation reentry
- Date
1970
- Summary
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Demonstrates the successful rehabilitation of mental health patients in Palo Alto Veterans Hospital. Explains that they are given tokens for rewards, trained in sheltered workshops, and finally re-established in the outside world. Shows examples of last-phase patients operating their own gas station and renovating a home where other released patients will live. Points out that an ex-patient serves as an advisor for newly released patients.
- Contributors
John M. Atthowe, Ph.D.; Joseph M. McDonough, Ph.D.; Rudyard Propst; Robert Kaiser; Edward L. Morris; James Bourgeois; Dale Sharkey; Larry Novak; William G. Bauer; Tom Markle; Birdie Morris
- Publisher
National Educational Television
- Genres
Educational; Mental Health
- Subjects
Veterans--Mental health--United States; People with mental disabilities--Rehabilitation--United States; Psychology; Mental health services
- Location
Palo Alto, CA
- Collection
National Educational Television
- Unit
IUL Moving Image Archive
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
Access Restrictions
This item is accessible by: the public.