Operation reentry

Year Published: 1970

Creator: John M. Atthowe Ph.D. Joseph M. McDonough Ph.D. Rudyard Propst Robert Kaiser Edward L. Morris James Bourgeois Dale Sharkey Larry Novak William G. Bauer Tom Markle Birdie Morris

Format: 16mm

Description: Demonstrates the successful rehabilitation of mental health patients in Palo Alto Veterans Hospital. Explains that they are given tokens for rewards, trained in sheltered workshops, and finally re-established in the outside world. Shows examples of last-phase patients operating their own gas station and renovating a home where other released patients will live. Points out that an ex-patient serves as an advisor for newly released patients.

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