Reality Orientation: A Historical Study of Patient Progress
Abstract
As part of its rehabilitation program, the Veterans Administration Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, uses reality orientation with confused and disoriented patients. The authors describe reality-orientation techniques and assess the results of the program based on a study of 125 men who participated in it and other rehabilitation activities between 1965 and 1970. Overall, 32 percent of the men improved while 68 per cent remained the same; only one patient regressed.
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