Riverview Hospital for Children and Youth: A Culture of Promise

by Richard J. Wiseman

A personal history of the groundbreaking children's mental health facility

Prior to 1972, visitors to Connecticut state mental hospitals might have noticed a six-year-old chronically depressed girl crouching in the corner of a chaotic cafeteria, or a seven-year-old autistic boy sleeping on a cot next to a seventy-year-old schizophrenic man. Riverview Hospital for Children and Youth tells the story of one of the first milieu based...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819575895
• ISBN13: 9780819575890
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up