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Work at Netherne — A service responding to change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Mounir Ekdawi
Mounir Ekdawi*
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Netherne Rehabilitation Service, Coulsdon, Surrey
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Work activities were systematically introduced by R. K. Freudenberg at Netherne Hospital, in the 1950s, as a component of a rehabilitation programme for severely disabled in-patients. At about the same time, Douglas Bennett utilised the psychological, vocational and economic benefits of work in preparing long-stay Netherne patients for resettlement in the community. The value of work as a principal rehabilitative medium in a wide spectrum of disability was periodically reported.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , January 1989, pp. 30 - 32
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