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A Brief History of the Development of Rehabilitative Services in China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

Weicai Tian ,
Veronica Pearson ,
Ruiwen Wang  and
Michael R. Phillips
Weicai Tian*
Affiliation:
Shashi City Veterans Psychiatric Hospital
Veronica Pearson
Affiliation:
Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong
Ruiwen Wang
Affiliation:
Shashi City Veterans Psychiatric Hospital
Michael R. Phillips
Affiliation:
Shashi City Veterans Psychiatric Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, USA
*
∗78 Ta Qiao Road, Shashi, Hubei 434000, PRC
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In pre-revolutionary China most disabled persons had no opportunity to receive education or obtain employment, and many of them experienced social discrimination. After the founding of the People's Republic, the government adopted a number of measures aimed at guaranteeing their livelihood. Efforts were made to give those who maintained the ability to work the opportunity to do so; those who were unable to work were provided with emergency relief or, if they had no family members who could support them, placed in orphanages, long-term psychiatric hospitals, and other types of welfare institution. Once the basic livelihood needs of the disabled were met, the next objective was to provide rehabilitative services. The evolution of these services has depended on three separate but related developments: the maturation of an organisational structure for the co-ordination of the services; the promulgation of laws that safeguard the rights and privileges of disabled persons; and the formation of academic societies of medical rehabilitation. This paper first considers these three developments and then examines how they have influenced the evolution of psychiatric rehabilitation in China.

Type
I. The Chinese Setting for Rehabilitation Services
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 165 , Issue S24: Psychiatric Rehabilitation in China , August 1994 , pp. 19 - 27
Copyright
Copyright © 1994 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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