Word: dohan
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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Among the organizations they have approached is the Russell Sage foundation of New York, which recently made a grant to J. Lawrence Dohan '55, founder of the P.B.H. Mental Hospital program, for projected mental health study. The Committee is also soliciting the 51 million dollar Commonwealth Fund and the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation...
...sounds like a college party; doesn't it?" said J. Lawrence Dohan '55 as he approached the door to "G-3," a ward high inside Metropolitan State Hospital at Waltham, Mass. "Well, it isn't, he continued, without smiling. "It's a mental hospital, and the sounds you hear are coming from patients who were considered hopeless cases a little while...
...When Dohan began the volunteer program in October, 1954, "G-3" desperately needed brightening up. All day, every day, every week, every month, the patients found nothing but a long corridor. There was nothing to do, no one to talk to. Dohan had served as a volunteer at Boston Psychopathic Hospital a year earlier, but last spring switched to Metropolitan State, where there were no volunteers at all. Beginning with only two volunteers, Dohan has expanded the program, under Phillips Brooks House, to include, at present, over 200 Harvard and Radcliffe students...
While volunteers need no preparation for ward work either at Boston Psycopathic or Metropolitan State, case work is a different matter. The 19 volunteers, led by Maeda Jurkowitz '56 and Michael Dohan '58, first participated in a four-week training program conducted by professional social workers, and then went to work helping patients who were able to leave the hispital adjust to community life again...
...McLaughlin maintains that the real problem is the "large back-log of patients who have been here6J. Lawrence Dohan '55, originator of the program, looks out the window and another volunteer looks into a balloon. Sometimes it helps to have someone share the view...