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Lessons Learned From 23 Years Of A Deaf Psychiatric Inpatient Unit: Part 1, Neil S. Glickman
Lessons Learned From 23 Years Of A Deaf Psychiatric Inpatient Unit: Part 1, Neil S. Glickman
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The author was the director or co-director of a specialty Deaf psychiatric inpatient unit for 17 of its 23 years. This program was established as a culturally affirmative mental health program. The author reflects back on what this has meant and how the unit staff struggled to create a program that was both culturally and clinically competent. In Part 1 of this two-part article, the lessons learned about some unique clinical challenges are discussed. These involved the challenges of working with ASL competent deaf persons and with deaf persons with severe language dysfluency in their best language, sign. The question …
Lessons Learned From 23 Years Of Deaf Psychiatric Inpatient Unit: Part 2, Neil S. Glickman
Lessons Learned From 23 Years Of Deaf Psychiatric Inpatient Unit: Part 2, Neil S. Glickman
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The author was the director or co-director of a specialty Deaf psychiatric inpatient unit for 17 of its 23 years. In Part 1 of this article, the author reflected on the lessons learned about deaf psychiatric patients from this experience. These lessons include recognition of the wide continuum of communication skills and deficits of the deaf persons served and the significant numbers of deaf patients who have poor communication skills in any language. The author also supported the hypothesis that many deaf psychiatric patients have a particular disorder involving language dysfluency, related mainly to language deprivation and an array of …