Word: wellmet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wellmet's immediate practical concern is to find the patient a job or to bring him to the point where he's ready for a job. The theory is that a patient must have a job to survive in the outside world; he must avoid becoming too dependent on the students, and he must learn to fend for himself. Mrs. Carmel says that the most sensitive problem is matching the person to the right job. Some residents are afraid to exercise their full potentiality, taking a dishwasher's position when they are suited to a responsible and creative job, while...
...ecstatic about its failures. A student says, "we feel guilty when we fail with someone...we don't want to leave anyone in the bin. We do all we can to bring them back." If a patient cannot be on his own after three years at Wellmet, the group tries to make other arrangements for him in a family care home, the city infirmary, or a place for disabled people. A recent resident, a 15-year-old girl, had to be sent back to Met State when the house could not keep up with her constant demands for attention which...
...house's major decisions are made in the Wednesday meetings. There are two, the first closed to the students, patients, and staff, and the second consisting of students, staff, and anyone else--except patients--who wants to attend. Ae Wellmet's only formal institution, the meetings are sometimes brutally frank. "Sometimes I dread Wednesdays," one student says. "My head is absolutely squishy after the meetings," a staff member comments...
...Wellmet tries to teach how to use people...
Judgments are made of the patient. "Is he sick enough for Wellmet...