ABSTRACT
In large part, patients shared the physician's view of the role of the various specialties on rehab. The physicians decide which patients should be selected for rehab, what types of therapy they should be given, and when they have reached the point where they may be discharged from the program. The information of the caseworker concerning the patient's social status was of importance to the physician in making disposition plans, and thus the caseworker's role in decision-making became more important in the latter part of the patient's stay on rehab. Caseworkers on the rehab unit believe that their major function should be helping patients deal with their emotional and social problems. They should concern themselves with such matters as helping a patient accept his disability and his placement when he is moved off the rehab program, or making a patient's behavior more acceptable through a process of socializing him to conform more closely to behavior expected by the general public.
