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Development of a Virtual Reality Assessment of Everyday Living Skills
Published on: April 23, 2014
[Work and social reintegration in psychiatry.]
Abstract:
This article describes the graduated program of social réintégration into the working world of ex-patients of the Robert-Giffard Hospital. The philosophy of this program is the "normalization" of the patients achieved through four progressive stages of apprenticeship. Each stage includes different apprenticeship objectives, physical environment, professional resources and an evaluation tool (the A.F.I, scale). As far as the authors know, there exist in the psychiatric field in Canada few programs as advanced as the one described above.
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