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What David saw

Consolidate your learning with activities that will enhance the article you have just read. Mike Bender and Richard Hallam ask the questions

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The article provides an often devastating insight into what life could be like in the mental hospitals of the 1960s and 1970s. One question you may like to bear in mind as you work through these student activities is: ‘How much have things improved since those times?’ The authors are pessimistic.

1 Much treatment now comes under the umbrella of ‘Care in the Community’. Check out exactly what this means in practice.

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