{"title":"A psychiatric program for deaf patients.","authors":"A I Gerstein","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The following article describes the growing awareness of the need for mental health services for deaf patients, the evolution of a well-defined treatment program and the complexities of implementing a program for the deaf. The initial naivete resulting in misconceptions about program needs are addressed and the attempts to rectify them are presented. Finally, there is a detailed presentation of our first pilot year of functioning and the attendant successes and problems, as well as a description of our first formal year of operation and a critique of our present status.</p>","PeriodicalId":79749,"journal":{"name":"The Psychiatric hospital","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Psychiatric hospital","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The following article describes the growing awareness of the need for mental health services for deaf patients, the evolution of a well-defined treatment program and the complexities of implementing a program for the deaf. The initial naivete resulting in misconceptions about program needs are addressed and the attempts to rectify them are presented. Finally, there is a detailed presentation of our first pilot year of functioning and the attendant successes and problems, as well as a description of our first formal year of operation and a critique of our present status.