A Study on the Purpose of Attending Sheltered Workshops for Mentally Handicapped People and the Support for their Social Independence

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  • 精神障害者小規模作業所への通所目的と自立援助についての一考察
  • セイシン ショウガイシャ ショウ キボ サギョウショ エ ノ ツウショ モクテキ ト ジリツ エンジョ ニ ツイテ ノ イチ コウサツ

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The purpose of this study is to clarify how mentally handicapped people comprehended their social independence, and to find ways to support them. We carried out a questionnaire 48 persons in 4 sheltered workshops to examine their purposes for attending sheltered workshops and the differences between men and women on their purpose and its relation factors. Analysis of the questionnaire produced the following 5 items as their purpose of attending: 1. to enjoy a group life by communicating through working, 2. to obtain mental stability 3. to establish lifestyle habits of working, 4. To learn the social manners or skill through working, 5. to participate in the workshop without anypositive purposes. As a result of the questionnaire, there were differences between men and women on the following: A) on their purposes for attending workshops, B) on the relations between (a) age and their purposes, (b) the frequency hospitalization for mentally problem andtheir purpose, (c) the period of attending and their purpose, (d) the desire of staying and their purpose, (e) the will to work and their purpose. These results suggested that we need to support their social independence after dueconsidering on the differences between the sexes.

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