Rehabilitation Centers Today: A Report on 77 Rehabilitation CentersOffice of Vocational Rehabilitation, 1959 - 231 pages |
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Page 10 - hospital for the chronically ill and impaired' shall not include any hospital primarily for the care and treatment of mentally ill or tuberculous patient*. Jt/ (n) The term 'rehabilitation facility' means a facility which is operated for the primary purpose of assisting in the rehabilitation of disabled persons through an integrated program of medical, psychological, social, and vocational evaluation and services under competent professional supervision...
Page 42 - ... their rehabilitation through solution or amelioration of problems growing out of their relationships to others, particularly those most influential in their social environment. Practiced in centers by trained social workers, often medical social workers, and sometimes by psychiatric social workers. Social Group Work: The practice of using planned group activities for the purpose of furthering social adjustment. Sometimes practiced in centers by trained social group workers and sometimes not....
Page 187 - Institute for the Crippled and Disabled, 400 First Avenue, New York 10...
Page 6 - rehabilitation is the restoration of the handicapped to the fullest physical, mental, social, vocational, and economic usefulness of which they are capable.
Page 6 - ... no treatment is solely medical, social, psychological, vocational or economic; but all these aspects assume a major or minor role depending upon the circumstances and the nature of the client's needs.
Page 49 - Vocational Evaluation: The process of collecting and appraising information on the disabled person's work history, education, and physical condition for the purpose of determining the possibilities of employment. Performed by vocational counselors. Vocational Counseling: The process of working with the disabled person to help him understand his vocational liabilities and assets, and the supplying of occupational information for the purpose of helping him to choose an occupation suitable to his interests...
Page 7 - The rehabilitation center supplements rather than supplants the physical medicine and rehabilitation activities and programs of hospitals and other agencies within the community. Centers by themselves cannot meet the entire community need for rehabilitation services, but by their existence they increase the quality and quantity of the work performed by other rehabilitation agencies which focus on special aspects of the entire problem.
Page 34 - Medical Supervision: Actual oversight and control on the premises of all medical aspects of the rehabilitation program, by a physician licensed to practice medicine or surgery. Includes prescription for medical services and the direction of medical therapies such as physical and occupational therapy. Some few centers permit such supervision by a prescribing physician who is in the community but not on the premises. Physical Therapy: The administration of medically prescribed activities and procedures...
Page 35 - ... socially, or emotionally. Psychiatric Treatment: The services of a psychiatrist or services prescribed by him and performed by psychologists and psychiatric social workers for the purpose of improving the disabled person's mental or emotional health and susceptibility to other rehabilitation procedures. Nursing: The care of patients requiring assistance in performing demands of daily living and in carrying out the physician's orders for his medical treatment, including bedside nursing.
Page 52 - Special Education: The supplying, often through cooperation with public school officials, of schooling under regular teachers for schoolage children residing in the center during prolonged treatment. In some instances, it may also include education of adults in basic subjects related to vocational adjustment. Vocational Training: Systematic planned instruction to qualify the student for immediate employment in the trade or occupation in which training was received.