ABSTRACT
I am the Occupational Therapist (OT) for an in-patient rehabilitation hostel-ward for ‘treatment resistant’ schizophrenic clients, who have come to us from high dependency, forensic or acute psychiatric services within our Trust. Our service is the step between hospital living and a return to community life. Our job, which can take a number of years if the client has been in hospital for long periods, is to re-equip them with the skills they have either lost through long years of hospitalisation or not had the opportunity to develop if their illness struck them down when still quite young.
