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Riverview Hospital for Children and Youth
Richard J. Wiseman
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Description for Riverview Hospital for Children and Youth
A personal history of the groundbreaking children's mental health facility Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEC; HBJK; MBPK; MJW; MMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 635.
Prior to 1972, visitors to Connecticut state mental hospitals might have noticed a six-year-old chronically depressed girl crouching in the corner of a chaotic cafeteria, or a seven-year-old autistic boy sleeping on a cot next to a seventy-year-old schizophrenic man. Riverview Hospital for Children and Youth tells the story of one of the first milieu based therapeutic hospitals specializing in children's care, located in Middletown, Connecticut. Richard J. Wiseman, its first superintendent, offers his own story and treatment philosophy alongside the voices of the many people who worked tirelessly to free children from an adult mental health facility, and to ... Read more
Prior to 1972, visitors to Connecticut state mental hospitals might have noticed a six-year-old chronically depressed girl crouching in the corner of a chaotic cafeteria, or a seven-year-old autistic boy sleeping on a cot next to a seventy-year-old schizophrenic man. Riverview Hospital for Children and Youth tells the story of one of the first milieu based therapeutic hospitals specializing in children's care, located in Middletown, Connecticut. Richard J. Wiseman, its first superintendent, offers his own story and treatment philosophy alongside the voices of the many people who worked tirelessly to free children from an adult mental health facility, and to ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819575890
SKU
V9780819575890
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