The psychiatric outpatient's family as a support system

During 1998 the discharge of as many as possible psychiatric patients from long-term psychiatric hospitals in the North-West Province, in other words deinstitutionalisation, were planned (Roos, 1998). Opsomming Gedurende 1998 is die ontslag van so veel moontlik psigiatriese pasi nte van langtermyn-psigiatriese hospitale in die Noordwes-Provinsie, met ander woorde de nstitusionalisering, beplan (Roos, 1998). *Please note: This is a reduced version of the abstract. Please refer to PDF for full text.