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Future Opportunities and Challenges for the Development of Psychiatric Rehabilitation in China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

Michael R. Phillips  and
Veronica Pearson
Michael R. Phillips*
Affiliation:
Research Centre of Clinical Epidemiology, Shashi City Veterans Psychiatric Hospital, PRC, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, USA
Veronica Pearson
Affiliation:
Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong
*
∗Shashi City Veterans Psychiatric Hospital, 78 Ta Qiao Road, Shashi, Hubei 434000, PRC
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The models of psychiatric rehabilitation described in this supplement evolved in response to a change in the official attitude to the disabled and to the provision of welfare services that has arisen since the start of China's reform era in 1978. The traditional ‘residual’ welfare that provided the minimum services needed to prevent social unrest (Chan & Chow, 1992) has been transformed into a pro-active form of welfare that identifies disadvantaged and disabled persons in the community and provides them with support and rehabilitation. Perhaps the most dramatic indication of the new status of the disabled in China is that the opening ceremony of the Second National Congress of the China Disabled Persons' Federation on 6 October 1993 was held in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, and President Jiang Zemin, Premier Li Peng and “all China's top Party and government leaders” were in attendance (Liang, 1993).

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V. Concluding Remarks
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 165 , Issue S24: Psychiatric Rehabilitation in China , August 1994 , pp. 128 - 142
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Copyright © 1994 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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