Word: chronical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Committee on Rights and Responsibilities is topical again the local point of the University's most chronic controversy...
...other mentally disturbed patients whose actions endanger others-and often themselves. Honolulu Psychologist Patrick DeLeon takes an entirely different view. "The worst thing you can do to a patient," he says, "is admit him to a hospital." Instead, DeLeon has a theory which advocates placing small groups of chronic mental patients in "family living units" in which they live as brothers and sisters in rented private apartments, hold jobs if they can, and solve day-to-day problems with almost no outside guidance...
...theory behind the idea for the experiment, which was originally proposed not by a professional but by a hospital aide, is that chronic mental patients are dependent personalities who do not have much motivation to change their behavior as long as they have other people to look after them. DeLeon's goal was not to cure their dependence but to transfer it to the family group. "Once you switch your attitude toward these people and assume they are in control of themselves," he says, "they no longer go out of control...
...subjects were 19 hospitalized chronic alcoholics. All were told that they could have one-ounce drinks whenever they asked for them, with a limit of 24 ounces. On some days, the patients were offered no incentive for not drinking too much. On other days, they were told that if they restricted themselves to five ounces or less, they could work in a laundry (and earn $1 an hour), take part in group therapy, have visitors, chat with other patients and use a recreation room with games, TV and a pool table. The consistency of the results is impressive...
...United Press International's foreign correspondents have often observed acidly to colleagues that UPI really stands for "underpaid internationally." The chronic complaint of low pay and long hours has caused four veteran American UPI staffers to precipitate a strike in the news agency's London bureau. The four make between $185 and $205 a week, not bad by British standards but far below the minimum of $272 that UPI must pay journeymen in New York. They joined Britain's National Union of Journalists in a bid for shorter work hours, and when the N.U.J. called a walkout...