%0 Journal Article %T The psychiatric outpatient's family as a support system %A Emmerentia du Plessis %A M Greeff %A M P Koen %J Health SA Gesondheid %D 2004 %I AOSIS OpenJournals %R 10.4102/hsag.v9i2.160 %X 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. %U http://www.hsag.co.za/index.php/HSAG/article/view/160